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Wheatgrass

Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.

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1
Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
2
A grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass.

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Word	Definition
crestednoun	Any of various creatures having a crest.
common wheatnoun	Triticum aestivum, a widely cultivated wheat species.
windgrassnoun	(Lachnagrostis spp.) A common slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground, or around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins and coastal areas.
dog wheatnoun	Synonym of dog grass.
switchgrassnoun	A tall North American perennial grass, of species Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
dog grassnoun	A coarse perennial grass, of species Elymus repens, common in uncultivated grounds
triticumnoun	A plant of the genus Triticum (wheat and related cereals).
blackgrassnoun	(UK) Alopecurus myosuroides, a weed that harms wheat crops.
teffnoun	The fine grain of this plant.
gama grassnoun	A tall coarse American grass of species Tripsacum dactyloides, valuable for forage.
winter wheatnoun	A type of wheat that is planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.
witchgrassnoun	Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed.
wheatberrynoun	The entire wheat kernel (except for the hull), comprising the bran, germ, and endosperm, sometimes used in food.
wild ricenoun	Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
hulled wheatnoun	Any of certain species of wheat that need to be processed after threshing to remove the inedible glumes or hulls from the heads: einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum), emmer (Triticum dicoccon), spelt (Triticum spelta), or farro (Triticum turgidum).
speltverb	(transitive, obsolete) To grind or crush (grain or pulses).
grassweednoun	Any weed that is a grass.
para grassnoun	An African grass, Urochloa mutica, used for fodder.
aegilopsnoun	(obsolete) Goatgrass (Aegilops spp.) or other grass found as a corn-weed.
witch grassnoun	Alternative form of witchgrass. [Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed.]