Word Meanings - NOTWHEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wheat not bearded. Carew.

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• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• CAREWORN
  Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• BEARDIE
  The bearded loach of Europe.
• BEARDLESS
  1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• BEARDED
  Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• WHEAT RUST
  A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.
• WHEATWORM
  A small nematode worm which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
• WHEATEAR
  A small European singing bird . The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird,
• WHEATSTONE'S RODS
  Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called
• BEARD
  Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw
• WHEAT
  A cereal grass and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded
• WHEAT SAWFLY
  A small European sawfly whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks. Any of several small American sawflies of the genus Dolerus, as D. sericeus and D. arvensis, whose larvæ injure the stems or heads of wheat. Pachynematus
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• TREEBEARD
  A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
• COWWHEAT
  A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• NOTWHEAT
  Wheat not bearded. Carew.
• WHITEBEARD
  An old man; a graybeard.
• VANDYKE BEARD
  A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.