wheat
/hwiːt/noun
mass noun
1- a cereal which is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc.小麦。
1.1
- Genus Triticum, family Gramineae: several species, including bread wheat (T. aestivum) and durum wheat, and many distinctive cultivars.小麦属, 禾本科：数种, 包括普通小麦（拉丁名T.aestivum）和硬质小麦, 以及许多不同的栽培变种。
1.2
- the grain of this plant小麦粒。
短语
separate the wheat from the chaff
- 见CHAFF1.
词源
Old English hwǣte of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weit, German Weizen, also to WHITE.