different between leghorn vs wheat

English

Alternative forms

• Leghorn (chicken breed)

Etymology

Mid 18th century: from Leghorn (“Livorno”), the place the straw and fowls were imported from.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??h??n/, /l?????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??h??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

leghorn (countable and uncountable, plural leghorns)

1. (uncountable) A type of dried plaited wheat straw fabric.
2. (countable) Designating a type of hat made from Leghorn straw.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 65:

     When straw-hats had become unfashionable, Mrs. Nollekens hinted to old White, the hatter […] , that possibly he could accommodate her with a Leghorn hat at a moderate rate.

3. (countable) A small white chicken of a hardy breed.

Translations

Anagrams

• Herlong

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English leghorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?x.??rn/
• Hyphenation: leg?horn

Noun

leghorn m (plural leghorns)

1. leghorn, breed of chicken from Livorno

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