different between wheat vs pablum

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

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Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

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

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Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?bulum (“nourishment”), with the modern sense coming via the brand name Pablum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæbl?m/

Noun

pablum (usually uncountable, plural pablums)

1. Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
   • 1992, October 23rd, Daily Sentinel, Writer Likes Clinton, on page 2:

     The Republican argument today is pablum, mush and saccharine (which exhausts my edible metaphors).

2. (dated) Nourishment.

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