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WILD WHEAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild wheat mean?
• WILD WHEAT (noun)
The noun WILD WHEAT has 1 sense:
1. found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat
Familiarity information: WILD WHEAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides; wild emmer; wild wheat
Hypernyms ("wild wheat" is a kind of...):
wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)
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