wheat bread
nounEtymology From Middle English whete bred, equivalent to wheat + bread. Compare German Weizenbrot, Danish hvedebrød, Swedish vetebröd, Icelandic hveitibrauð.
1
Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Idiomatic Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread.
- Near-synonym: brown bread (whole-wheat bread sense)
- He usually eats wheat bread, but today he ordered white bread to change it up a little.
2
Any bread made from wheat flour, as contrasted with nonwheat flours.
- She likes bread, but she can't eat wheat bread because of the gluten. We picked up some gluten-free bread that's made from other grains.