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wheat

/ˈwiːt/ noun B2
  1. Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. (countable) · They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
  2. A light brown color, like that of wheat. (uncountable) · They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.

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A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the Wolf would be his surety.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 62 · B2
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 52 · B2
A LARK had made her nest in the early spring on the young green wheat.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 74 · B2

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