Wheat vs. Chaff — What's the Difference?

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum).

Chaff (; also UK: ) is the dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds of cereal grains, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw. Chaff is indigestible by humans, but livestock can eat it and in agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burned.

A cereal which is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc.

The dry bracts enclosing mature grains of wheat and some other cereal grasses, removed during threshing.

Any of various annual cereal grasses of the genus Triticum of the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia, especially T. aestivum, widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important edible grain.

The scales or bracts borne on the receptacle among the small individual flowers of many plants in the composite family.

The grain of any of these grasses, ground to produce flour used in breads, pasta, and other foods.

Finely cut straw or hay used as fodder.

(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

Trivial or worthless matter

(uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Strips of metal, foil, or glass fiber with a metal content, cut into various lengths and having varying frequency responses, that are used to reflect electromagnetic energy as a radar countermeasure. These materials, usually dropped from aircraft, also can be deployed from shells or rockets.

Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Good-natured teasing; banter.

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

To make fun of in a good-natured way; tease

Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

To engage in playful teasing.

Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.

Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

(figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.

Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

(military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

(intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

(transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

(transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower.

To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

Be silly or tease one another;