WHEAT

n. cereal grass cultivated for its edible grains; edible grain of the wheat plant that is used in the production of flour and flour products

Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a grass that is cultivated worldwide. Globally, it is an important human food grain ranking second in total production as a cereal crop behind maize; the third being rice. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads; cookies, cakes, pasta, noodles and couscous; and for fermentation to make beer, alcohol, vodka or biofuel. Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing thatch.
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Noun
1. annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
(synonym) corn
(hypernym) cereal, cereal grass
(hyponym) durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat
(member-holonym) Triticum, genus Triticum
(part-meronym) wheat berry
2. grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
(synonym) wheat berry
(hypernym) grain, food grain, cereal
(hyponym) bulgur, bulghur, bulgur wheat
(part-holonym) common wheat, Triticum aestivum
(part-meronym) wheat germ

(n.)
A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
  

Wheat Brought to earth by Lords of Wisdom from other spheres, as were all the grains, and indeed all plants and animals. Yet wheat is said not to be known in the wild state nor to have been developed from any grass. Plato speaks of inventors -- gods and demigods incarnate in human beings -- who appeared successively among the races of mankind after their divine rulers had departed, and discovered fire, wheat, and wine. The kabiri and also Isis are said to have brought wheat, as is Isis. In Egyptian symbology the Osirified defunct becomes Khem, who gleans the field of Aaru -- i.e., "he gleans either his reward or punishment, as that field is the celestial locality (Devachan) where the defunct is given wheat, the food of divine justice" (SD 1:221).
In ancient Greece wheat was always associated with Demeter or Ceres (whence the word cereal), and as Demeter was the preeminent goddess of the Mysteries, sheaves of wheat also were associated with the Mysteries. Maize held the same place in ancient America. In the Christian Church wheat is still the food in the bread -- the literal, physical "body of Christ."