📚 Wheat, noun. 🔉 /wiːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): 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. ❗️ Examples: 1. Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax. 2. Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat. 3. The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed. 4. Items to be covered include options in crop sequences, wheat breeding directions, tramline farming, potential for durum wheats, lupins and various pests and their control. 5. Perhaps 2,000 years later, durum wheat hybridised with goat grass to give us bread wheat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic