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# wheat

«wheat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall grass plant grown on farms; its grain is ground…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wheat)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wheat is a tall grass plant grown on farms; its grain is ground into flour to make bread, pasta and cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#m1)

2) Wheat is also the grain itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a crop measured in bushels, kilograms, tonnes or acres; amounts per acre or per bag are rates. In science and geography: a cereal crop, grown in big fields in Canada, the USA, Australia and Ukraine; seeds, harvest, food chains. In everyday life: wholemeal bread, wheat allergy. Phrases: «a field of wheat», «wheat flour», «whole wheat».

### examples

- The farmer grew 300 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x1)
- Each acre gives 40 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x2)
- He sold half of his wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x3)
- A bag holds 50 kg of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x4)
- Bread is made from wheat flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x5)
- The wheat turns golden in late summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x6)
- Canada grows a lot of wheat on its prairies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x7)
- Some people cannot eat wheat because it makes them ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x8)
- A Lark made her nest in a field of young wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «some wheat», «a field of wheat», not «a wheat». Wheat, rice, oats and corn are all cereals. Maths: a crop amount; per acre or per bag is a rate. Wheat is not counted one by one but measured.

### In the corpora

- [Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/)
- [In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/15/)
- [Three grains feed much of humanity: rice, wheat and maize.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/2/)
- [Rice, wheat and maize together provide a large share of all the calories people eat in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/9/)
- [Bread is made from flour, and flour is ground from wheat grains.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.