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 wheat berry is covered by several layers of skin, while under these layers is the floury kernel or endosperm.

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

Another organ of the wheat berry which has a most important bearing on the work of the miller is the placenta, which is in effect a cord connecting the berry with its stalk or straw.

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