wheaten
English
Etymology
From Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten (“wheaten”); equivalent to wheat + -en.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːtən
Adjective
wheaten (comparative more wheaten, superlative most wheaten)
- Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat.
- wheaten bread
- wheaten flour
- 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 60:
- Then, too, it should be remembered that large quantities of wheaten flour and other preparations of wheat reach this country from abroad.
- Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.
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See also
- Appendix:Colors
- Wheatish
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