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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or derived from wheat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat: as, wheaten straw.
  • Made of the grain or flour of wheat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Made of wheat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat.
  • adjective Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.
  • noun A pale yellow or beige colour, like that of wheat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or derived from wheat

Etymologies

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From Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten ("wheaten"), equivalent to wheat +‎ -en.

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