wheat

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

wheat [wheat wheats] BrE [wiːt] NAmE [wiːt] noun uncountable
a plant grown for its grain that is used to produce the flour for bread, cakes, ↑pasta, etc; the grain of this plant
•wheat flour
Idiom: ↑sort out the wheat from the chaff

Word Origin:
Old English hwǣte of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weit, German Weizen, also to ↑white.

Collocations:
Farming
Growing food and raising animals
plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
plough/ (NAmE) plow land/a field
sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
spread manure/fertilizer on sth
cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
damage/destroy/lose your crop
ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
press/dry/ferment grapes
grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
kill/slaughter livestock
preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
Modern farming
run a fish farm/an organic dairy
engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
improve/increase crop yields
face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pale yellow, straw, wheat berry