red wheat
A variety of the common wheat, of a reddish colour.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §34 Red wheate hath a flat eare,..and is the greatteste corne. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. i. 453 The first kinde, whiche of Columella is iudged the best,..is called Robus, and of Plinie Triticum: in English Red Wheat. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. i. 17 Shall we sowe the head-land with Wheate? Shal. With red Wheate Dauy. 1611 Cotgr., Rousset,..also, red wheat, Duck-bill wheat, Normandie wheat. 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. 476 Triticum spica and granis rubentibus,..red Wheat, [called] in some places Kentish Wheat; here red Lammas. Its Stalk, Ear, and Grain are all of them red. 1762 Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 361 The red-wheat, and the Poland bearded wheat. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 349 Most of the red wheats belong to this class of grain. 1868 Chambers' Encycl. s.v. Wheat, Red wheats are therefore preferred for comparatively poor soils. |