wheat berry

American  

noun

1. the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.

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Etymology

Origin of wheat berry

First recorded in 1535–45

Example Sentences

This flour has more bran and germ present than white flour, but it's not so much that you're including the entire wheat berry, as with 100 percent whole-wheat.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2022

Smoked portobello mushroom and fried-green-tomato sandwich on wheat berry bread?

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2015

Kellogg and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg accidentally flaked wheat berry and created Kellogg’s corn flakes.

From Forbes • May 13, 2015

After being cleaned the wheat berry is split and broken up into increasingly fine pieces by fluted rolls or “breaks.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Man has never been able to improve on the composition of the wheat berry.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.