[U] 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
IDIOMS
sort out / separate the wheat from the chaff to distinguish useful or valuable people or things from ones that are not useful or have no value:
We sifted through the application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is wheat a noun, verb, or something else?
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