{
    "term": "wheat",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/ce/cereals.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a plant grown for its grain that is used to produce the flour for bread, cakes, pasta, etc.; the grain of this plant",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "wheat flour"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming", "Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["ripe", "cracked", "whole"],
                "… of wheat": ["ear", "grain", "bag"],
                "verb + wheat": ["grow", "plant", "sow"],
                "wheat + verb": ["grow"],
                "wheat + noun": ["crop", "harvest", "field"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to recognize the difference between useful or valuable people or things and those that are not useful or have no value",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We sifted through the application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːt/",
                "audio": "wh/wheat/wheat__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːt/",
                "audio": "wh/wheat/wheat__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English hwǣte of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weit, German Weizen, also to white."
}