[f. CONE sb.] A bearded variety of wheat (so called, according to Lowe (Pract. Agric., 324) from the conical form of the spike). Also cone simply, and cones.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 152. The long Cone Wheat, which yet is the best of any, to be sown in rank clay Land.
1787. Winter, Syst. Husb., 137. Sowed with cone or hard wheat.
1807. Compl. Farmer (ed. 5), I. Cone-wheat, a species of wheat, some of the ears of which have awns, and others none.
1884. Upton-on-Severn Gloss., Cones, or Cone-wheat, Bearded wheat.
1887. Kentish Gloss., Cone-wheat.
