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wheatbelt

wheatbelt noun: a region used for the growing of wheat.

Noun

wheatbelt (plural wheatbelts)

  1. A region used for the growing of wheat.

Proper noun capitalized: Wheatbelt

Wheatbelt

  1. One of the nine regions in Western Australia.
    • The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since she visited a general store in the small town of Beacon, in WA’s north-east Wheatbelt region, on 29 June.2025 July 10, Tory Shepherd, “Abandoned van found in search for missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga in remote WA”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of wheatbelt

pluralwheatbelts

Origin of wheatbelt

From wheat + belt.

Questions about wheatbelt

What does wheatbelt mean?
Wheatbelt means a region used for the growing of wheat.
What part of speech is wheatbelt?
Wheatbelt can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wheatbelt?
The plural of wheatbelt is wheatbelts.

Words near wheatbelt in the dictionary

  1. wheat-fields
  2. wheat-plum
  3. wheat-plums
  4. wheatback
  5. wheatbacks
  6. wheatbelt
  7. wheatbelts
  8. wheatberries
  9. wheatberry
  10. wheatbird
  11. wheatbirds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheatbelt (page history and authors); Wheatbelt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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