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

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wheat berry

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

A larger use of these coarser flours will therefore help materially in eking out our scant wheat supply as the percentage of the wheat berry used for bread flour is but 72 per cent.

From Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) by Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse)

The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.

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