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 →

2) Wheat is also the grain itself. tree →

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 →
• Each acre gives 40 bushels of wheat. tree →
• He sold half of his wheat. tree →
• A bag holds 50 kg of wheat. tree →
• Bread is made from wheat flour. tree →
• The wheat turns golden in late summer. tree →
• Canada grows a lot of wheat on its prairies. tree →
• Some people cannot eat wheat because it makes them ill. tree →
• A Lark made her nest in a field of young wheat. tree →

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.
• In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.
• Three grains feed much of humanity: rice, wheat and maize.
• Rice, wheat and maize together provide a large share of all the calories people eat in the world.
• Bread is made from flour, and flour is ground from wheat grains.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wheat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.