cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

genus Triticum, Triticum - annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions

wheat berry - a grain of wheat

durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum - wheat with hard dark-colored 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

spelt, Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

emmer, starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt - hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed

Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat - found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

food grain, grain, cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat - parched crushed wheat

wheat germ - embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins

common wheat, Triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain