soft wheat

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   wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals

   Broaderwheat

Questions about soft wheat

What does soft wheat mean?

soft wheat means "wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals".

Is soft wheat a common word?

soft wheat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.