Meanings
plural wholemeals
- countableoftenspecificallyuncountableWhole-wheat flour.
Many varieties of wholemeals are made and all wholemeals have been popular for many years. Now, however, the stone-ground meals are coming into favour […]
1939, Edmund Baron Bennion, Breadmaking: Its Principles and Practice, page 291 more example
As might be expected, the small white loaf was bought mainly by the smaller wholly adult households, who also purchased much more wholemeal, other brown and "other" bread than did any type of family with children.
1955, Domestic Food Consumption and Expenditure: Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveContaining or made from the whole grain, including the bran.
adjectiveWhole-wheat.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to or derived from wheat
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian пълнозъ́рнесто брашно́, непресято брашно
- пълнозъ́рнесто брашно́ (pălnozắrnesto brašnó)whole-wheat flour
- непресято брашно (nepresjato brašno)whole-wheat flour
Hungarian teljes kiőrlésű liszt, korpás liszt
- teljes kiőrlésű lisztwhole-wheat flour
- korpás lisztwhole-wheat flour
- korpásőrlésűliszt (búza) (ki)whole-wheat flour
Irish caiscín, min chaiscín
- caiscínwhole-wheat flour
- min chaiscínwhole-wheat flour
Polish mąka pełnoziarnista
- mąka pełnoziarnistawhole-wheat flour
Swedish fullkornsvetemjöl
- fullkornsvetemjölwhole-wheat flour
Cite this entry
wholemeal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholemeal
“wholemeal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholemeal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wholemeal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholemeal.
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