different between wheat vs bannock

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

English

Alternative forms

• bannik

Etymology

From Old English bannuc, Gaelic bannach. Doublet of bonnag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ.n?k/

Noun

bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

1. (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
   • 1894, Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, D. Nutt, The Wee Bannock:

     So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

2. (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
   • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, ?ISBN, p. 54,

     My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

Translations

Derived terms

• currant-bannock
• bannock puncher

Related terms

• frybread, dog bread (US terms for specific breads which would all be called bannock in Canada)

Anagrams

• nonback