Wheat Vocabulary
Across
- 3. which the wheat plant grows.
- 6. a wheat plant.
- 10. the part of the wheat plant that contains the kernels.
- 12. the outer coating of the wheat kernel.
- 14. 60 pounds and contains about 1 million kernels.
- 15. to beat the stems and husks of grain or cereal plants
- 16. the embryo or nucleus of the wheat kernel, used in or
- 17. foods as a concentrated source of vitamins.
- 18. a single stalk or stem, especially from certain species
- 21. germ: the embryo of the wheat kernel that will develop
Down
- 1. the entire wheat plant.
- 2. grain, mostly wheat, rye, oats and barley.
- 4. the place where wheat kernels are ground into flour.
- 5. a machine to separate the grains and seeds.
- 7. an erect shoot arising from the crown of a grass.
- 8. the husks of grains and grasses that are separated
- 9. a way to measure a crop. One bushel of wheat
- 11. threshing.
- 12. the bristle-like parts of the wheat plant that cover
- 13. kernel: the seed, sometimes called a wheat berry,
- 18. an ear of grain, as of wheat.
- 19. protect the kernels.
- 20. a bristle-like attachment of a wheat plant.