winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes | small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere |
wheatworm
wheat eel
wheat eelworm
Tylenchus tritici | small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
winter flounder
blackback flounder
lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
| wheat future | wheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date |
pale yellow
straw
wheat | a variable yellow tint, dull yellow, often diluted with white |
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics | an Olympics for winter sports |
| wheat flour | flour prepared from wheat |
whole wheat flour
graham flour
graham
whole meal flour | flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran, (`whole meal flour' is British usage) |
| wheat gluten | gluten prepared from wheat |
| cracked-wheat bread | bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine |
dark bread
whole wheat bread
whole meal bread
brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
| puffed wheat | puffy wheat berries |
| winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months |
| winter crookneck squash | a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck |
| winter cress | cress cultivated for winter salads |
| winter melon | the fruit of the winter melon vine, a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well |
| lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
bulgur
bulghur
bulgur wheat | parched crushed wheat |
wheat
wheat berry | grains of common wheat, sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal, usually ground into flour |
| cracked wheat | grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces |
| wheat germ | embryo of the wheat kernel, removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins |
winter savory
winter savoury | resinous leaves used in stews and stuffings and meat loaf |
Weissbier
white beer
wheat beer | a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation, usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent |
wheatfield
wheat field | a field planted with wheat |
| nuclear winter | a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun, most living organisms would perish |
Japan allspice
Japanese allspice
winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
winter aconite
Eranthis hyemalis | small Old World perennial herb grown for its bright yellow flowers which appear in early spring often before snow is gone |
Christmas rose
winter rose
black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Winteraceae
family Winteraceae
winter's bark family | small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera, sometimes included in Magnoliaceae |
winter's bark winter's bark tree
Drimys winteri | South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood |
winter sweet poison arrow plant
Acocanthera oblongifolia
Acocanthera spectabilis | medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits |
winter purslane
miner's lettuce
Cuban spinach
Montia perfoliata | succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb, grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America |
winter cress
St. Barbara's herb
scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
Belle Isle cress
early winter cress
land cress
American cress
American watercress Barbarea verna
Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
winter heliotrope
sweet coltsfoot Petasites fragrans | European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers |
wheatgrass
wheat-grass | a grass of the genus Agropyron |
crested wheatgrass
crested wheat grass
fairway crested wheat grass
Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
| wheat | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains |
| wheat berry | a grain of wheat |
durum
durum wheat
hard wheat
Triticum durum
Triticum turgidum
macaroni wheat | wheat with hard darkolored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta, grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America |
| soft wheat | wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals |
common wheat
Triticum aestivum | widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain |
emmer
starch wheat
two-grain spelt
Triticum dicoccum | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany, in United States as stock feed |
wild wheat
wild emmer
Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides | found wild in Palestine, held to be prototype of cultivated wheat |
winter squash
winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |
winter crookneck
winter crookneck squash
Cucurbita moschata | any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks |
winter melon
Persian melon
honeydew melon
winter melon vine
Cucumis melo inodorus | any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell |
winter heath
spring heath
Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
love-in-winter
western prince's pine
Chimaphila umbellata
Chimaphila corymbosa | Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal corymb |
winter jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum | deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers |