cone-wheat
[f. cone n.]
A bearded variety of wheat (so called, according to Lowe (Pract. Agric. 324) from the conical form of the spike). Also cone simply, and cones.
| 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 152 The long Cone Wheat, which yet is the best of any, to be sown in rank clay Land. 1787 Winter Syst. Husb. 137 Sowed with cone or hard wheat. 1807 Compl. Farmer (ed. 5) I, Cone-wheat, a species of wheat, some of the ears of which have awns, and others none. 1884 Upton-on-Severn Gloss., Cones, or Cone-wheat, Bearded wheat. 1887 Kentish Gloss., Cone-wheat. |