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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A field of wheat.

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Examples

  • In its 10-point plan, the State Council said the government will spend small amounts, such as 10 yuan per mu, or about $2 per hectare, in subsidies for wheat-field irrigation, as well as allocate just over $1 billion for infrastructure to address the drought conditions.

    China Lifts Farm Subsidies James T. Areddy 2011

  • He wore a surcoat of wheat-field tan, a vest and breeches of mud brown.

    Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010

  • What follows are the well-known and popular wheat-field paintings, which culminate in "The Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper" from 1889.

    'Arcadia' Proves You Can Still Count on Tom Stoppard 2009

  • A hacker mowed a program into his wheat-field, creating a Semacode app that says "Hello, World."

    Wheat Field As Software | Impact Lab 2007

  • The massive, mighty trees were waving like a wheat-field in an autumn gale in England, and I dare say a field mouse in a wheat-field in a gale would have heard much the same uproar.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Siegmund waited, through the meadows, for the next wheat-field.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • The latter is the tint prevailing in Midian, often suggesting the careless European wheat-field, in which

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Away aloft, so high that a backward tilt of the head was necessary, the cloud-bank was edged with light as ineffably variable as the shadows over a wheat-field on a breezy day.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Through the wheat-field; that was on the back side of the village, next to the corn and away from the bluff.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • The eyes, now conning Cadfael rather warily over the rim of the cup, were as radiantly blue as Cadfael remembered them from Saint Giles, like cornflowers in a wheat-field.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

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