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Definition of Hard wheat
1. Noun. Wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America.
Generic synonyms: Wheat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Wheat
Literary usage of Hard wheat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"302 hard wheat, from the province of Beira, council of Figueira. ... 329 hard wheat.
330 Soft wheat flour. 331 Rye, from the province of Minho. ..."
2. Food Industries: An Elementary Textbook on the Production and Manufacture of by Hermann Theodore Vulté, Sadie Bird Vanderbilt (1920)
"hard wheat Flour.—hard wheat flour is made from spring wheat and represents the
type now used almost universally for bread-making. ..."
3. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad by Eugene Virgil Smalley (1883)
"I hard wheat—Towns in the Valley—Breckenridge and Wahpeton—Fargo and Moorhead—The
Natural Grain Belt of the Continent—Settlement of Northern Minnesota. ..."
4. Report by New Hampshire Bureau of Labor, Montana (1896)
"This is largely due to the fact that until lately no suitable mills were at hand
to grind hard wheat flour properly. Two modern roller mills were erected ..."
5. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"hard wheat always sells at a higher price in the market than soft wheat, ...
Flour made from hard wheat is more esteemed than what is made from soft corn; ..."
6. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"Hence we find the great " hard wheat" districts in the dry, hot climate west of
the Missouri River, while soft wheat is produced in the East and South. ..."
7. Plant Physiology: With Special Reference to Plant Production by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1911)
"... and hard-wheat production. — The hard-wheats are species or varieties which,
for the perfection of their particular economic qualities, ..."
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