wheaten

What it means

1. Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat.

   wheaten bread

   3 more examples

   wheaten flour

   The servants, especially the cook, were obliged every day to prepare a dish full of sweet milk, with crums of wheaten bread, and place it upon his little table; and it was soon after eaten up clean.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 47

   Then, too, it should be remembered that large quantities of wheaten flour and other preparations of wheat reach this country from abroad.

   1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 60

2. Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.

In a sentence

wheaten bread

Where it comes from

1. Old Englishhwǣten“wheaten”
2. Middle Englishwheten
3. Englishwheaten

Inherited from Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten (“wheaten”); equivalent to wheat + -en.