different between aleurone vs wheat

English

Alternative forms

• aleuron

Etymology

1865/70; from Ancient Greek ??????? (áleuron, “flour, meal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l(j)?????n/

Noun

aleurone (plural aleurones)

1. (biochemistry) The protein content of the embryo, endosperm, or perisperm of cereals, in the form of minute particles.
2. The outer layer (and its major cell type and its specialized protein) of the endosperm.

Synonyms

• (outer layer): peripheral endosperm

Related terms

• aleurone layer
• aleuronic
• aleuromancy
• aleurometer
• subaleurone

Translations

French

Noun

aleurone f (plural aleurones)

1. aleurone

Italian

Noun

aleurone m (plural aleuroni)

1. aleurone

Related terms

• aleuronico

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hw?te, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hw?taz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe