Wheat

hwēt, n. the most valuable of all the cereal gra es, the grain furnishing a white flour for bread—known as bearded , beardle , or bald , according to the presence or the absence of the awns or beard; as white , red , or amber , according to colour; and as spring , summer , autumn , or winter , according to the time of sowing.— ns. Wheat′-bird , the chaffinch; Wheat′-ear , an ear of wheat; Wheat′-eel , a disease in wheat—also Ear-cockle .— adj. Wheat′en , made of wheat.— ns. Wheat′-field , a field of wheat; Wheat′-fly , name of several flies which destroy wheat—e.g. the He ian fly; Wheat′-midge , a dipterous insect which lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads, and whose reddish larvæ devour the kernels; Wheat′-mil′dew , the rust which gathers on wheat and oats; Wheat′-moth , one of several small moths whose larvæ devour stored wheat.— Wheat-ear stitch , a fancy stitch in embroidery. [A.S. hwǽte — hwit , white; Ger. weizen ; allied to white , and named from its colour.]