wholemeal

whole +‎ meal

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊlmiːl/, [ˈhɔʊɫmiəɫ]

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wholemeal (not comparable)

1. (of bread or flour) containing or made from the whole grain, including the bran

   Synonyms: wholegrain, whole-wheat

wholemeal (countable and uncountable, plural wholemeals)

1. Whole-wheat flour.
   • 1939, Edmund Baron Bennion, Breadmaking: Its Principles and Practice, page 29:

     Many varieties of wholemeals are made and all wholemeals have been popular for many years. Now, however, the stone-ground meals are coming into favour […]

   • 1955, Domestic Food Consumption and Expenditure: Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee‎:

     As might be expected, the small white loaf was bought mainly by the smaller wholly adult households, who also purchased much more wholemeal, other brown and "other" bread than did any type of family with children.