noun
annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
• Syn: ↑Triticum
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms:
↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family
• Member Meronyms: ↑wheat
Useful english dictionary. 2012.