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WHEAT BEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
Synonyms:
Weissbier; wheat beer; white beer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wheat beer" is a kind of...):
ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheat beer"):
Weizenbier (a general name in southern Germany for wheat beers)
Weizenbock (a German wheat beer of bock strength)
