wheat

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n. 小麦

发音

US /wiːt/
UK /wiːt/

词形变化

wheats 复数 wheats

别名

wheate

教材释义与例句

名词

小麦；小麦色

the grain that bread is made from, or the plant that it grows on

a field of wheat

小麦地

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

    麦

    小麦

    可数 不可数

    They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.

  2. 2.

    A light brown color, like that of wheat.

    不可数 可数

    They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.

  3. 3.

    Ellipsis of wheat bread

    不可数 可数

    Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?

adj.
  1. 1.

    Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

straw wheatberry

上位词 5

yellow grain cereal foodgrain yellowness

下位词 10

spelt bulghur bulgur bulgur wheat common wheat cracked wheat durum durum wheat emmer hard wheat

部分词 2

wheatberry wheat germ

整体词 1

common wheat

相关短语

wheat penny wheat bread 小麦面包 wheat germ [医] 小麦胚 wheat bisk wheat bisks wheat flour 小麦粉，全麦面粉; 白面 wheat weevil wheat thief wheat weevils wheat paste 小麦糊 wheat starch wheat sawfly wheat sawflies wheat pennies wheat pastes

词源

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

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