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

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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

The wheat berry contains practically all that is necessary for the building of brain and body; and a man can live very well on a monodiet of navy beans.

From The Science of Being Well by Wallace Delois Wattles

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 Bernarr Macfadden

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