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

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.

The bran, which consists of several minute layers covering the wheat berry, has a distinct value in stimulating peristaltic action, and when it is removed, the resulting white flour must be a defective food.

From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr