Wheat

(noun.) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour.

(noun.) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.

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• The price is eight shillings the quarter of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• During the first twelve years of the last century, the average price of the best wheat at the Windsor market was ? 1:18:3?d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The centre of diffusion of wheat was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean region. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Six shillings and eightpence was then, and long afterwards, reckoned the average price of a quarter of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By the 15th of the same prince, this liberty was extended till the price of wheat exceeded 48s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in the twelve years preceding 1764 including that year, the average price of the same measure of the best wheat at the same market was ? 2:1:9?d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sixteen shillings, therefore, was the price of two quarters and more than three bushels of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is the united testimony of manufacturers and farmers alike that the crop is increased from one-eighth to one-fourth, especially in the winter wheat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The durum or macaroni wheats do especially well; but other varieties are also grown, as are oats, rye, barley and spelt. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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