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WHEATFIELD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wheatfield mean?
• WHEATFIELD (noun)
The noun WHEATFIELD has 1 sense:
1. a field planted with wheat
Familiarity information: WHEATFIELD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A field planted with wheat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
wheat field; wheatfield
Hypernyms ("wheatfield" is a kind of...):
grain field; grainfield (a field where grain is grown)
Context examples
A succession of heaves from the back of the crowd had sent a series of long ripples running through it, all the heads swaying rhythmically in the one direction like a wheatfield in a squall.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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