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The answer WHEAT has 174 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of wheat in various dictionaries:
noun - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
noun - grains of common wheat
noun - a variable yellow tint
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| Norman Borlaug is said to have saved more lives than anyone else, mainly by breeding this grain |
| A kind of cereal grain, triticale is produced by crossing rye & this |
| In the 1840s Jerome Case improved the threshing machine for the proverbial job of separating this from the chaff |
| The amber rolling fields of Wellington, Kansas make it this grain "capital of the world" |
| The emmer type of this was one of the first cultivated crops over 10,000 years ago |
| The hard red winter type of this grain is planted in autumn & in late spring |
| Afghanistan's flag has a mosque in a wreath made of stalks of this grain |
| More of the Earth's surface is covered by this grain than by any other food crop |
| Archaeologists have found that varieties of this grain, like Emmer & Einkorn, were grown in the 7th millennium B.C. |
| The "Golden Boy" statue atop the legislature holds a lit torch & a sheaf of this |
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Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum). * The archaeological record suggests that wheat was first cultivated in the regions of the Fertile Crescent around 9600 BCE. Botanically, the wheat kernel is a type of fruit called a caryopsis. * Wheat is grown on more land area than any other food crop (220.4 million hectares, 2014). World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined. In 2016, world production of wheat was 749 million tonnes, making it the second most-produced cereal after maize. Since 1960, world production of wheat and other grain crops has tripled and is expected to grow further through the middle of the 21st century. Global demand for wheat is increasing due to the unique viscoelastic and adhesive properties of gluten proteins, which facilitate the production of processed foods, whose consumpt |
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