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Language: Old English
Origin: hwæte

wheat

 noun
     
Related topics: Food, Agriculture, Crops
wheat [uncountable]
1DFTA the grain that bread is made from, or the plant that it grows on:
a field of wheat
2

separate the wheat from the chaff

to choose the good and useful things or people and get rid of the others
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