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A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.

A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmæus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks.

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

A small European singing bird (Saxicola oenanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat…

Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.

The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

See under Bridge.

in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.

Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.

Wheat not bearded. Carew.

e seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.…

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.