wheat mite (hwetmit)

Same as flour - mite. wheat-moth (hwēt'mốth), n. One of several small moths whose larvæ devour stored wheat, Same as red rust as the Angoumois grain-moth ( Gelechia cere a lella ), the Indian-meal moth ( Ephestia interpunc tell a ), the Mediterranean flour-moth (Ephestia kühniella ), or the wolf-moth ( Tinea granella ). wheat-pest (hwēt'pest), n. A dipterous insect, the frit-fly, Oscinis vast at or. wheat-riddle (hwēt'rid"1), n. A grain or wheat-separator. wheat-rust (hwetrust), n. and black rust (see both, under rust ). wheat-scourer (hwēt's kour"ėr), n. In milling, a cleaning-machine which receives the grain as pa ed from the smutter, and removes any hairs or loose parts of the outer bran. One form consists of a stiff brush with a grooved burrstone revolving against it below, the wheat pa ing between the two. Е. H. Knight. wheatsel-bird (hwet'sl-berd), n. The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs: so called from its congregating in autumn about the time of sowing wheat. J. H. Gurney. See cut under chaffinch. [Norfolk, Eng.] wheat-separator (hwet's ep"a-rā-tor), n. An apparatus for freeing wheat fröm müstard-seed, cockle, gra -seed, etc. The grain is made to pa over a series of inclined plates pierced with holes which allow the pa age of the smaller seeds but retain the wheat. E. H. Knight. Wheat stone bridge. See resistance, 3. wheat-thief (hwet'thef), n. The corn gromwell or bastard alkanet, Lithospermum arvense, a grain-field weed of Europe and parts parts of Asia, Any one of introduced in North America. wheat-thrips wer wheat-thrips (hwet'thrips), п. several species of thrips found abundantly upon wheat, and commonly supposed to injure the wheatla wheatlands, as Thrips cerealium of Europe, and Limo thrips tritici and L. gramineæ of the United States. 1. The grain See also Calan Same as wheat