winter wheat

English

Noun

winter wheat (countable and uncountable, plural winter wheats)

1. A type of wheat that is planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.

Related terms

• spring wheat

Translations

type of wheat

• Finnish: syysvehnä (fi)
• French: blé d’hiver (fr) m
• German: Winterweizen (de) m
• Italian: frumento invernale m
• Latin: silīgō f
• Spanish: trigo de invierno m