What's the difference between "wheat stalk", "grain ear" and "spike"?
Thank you in advance.
English is so confusing sometimes!
Spike is shown in the Spanish-English dictionary as the word I'm looking for, but it's not suitable for an American English speaker, who founds "wheat stalk" more suitable. But I find "grain ear" in a web page, which sounds strange to a British English speaker, but appears to be exactly as the word I'm looking for in the Wikipedia, where the word "spike" does not seem to include a reference to wheat.
Such a simple word seems to have a complicated use in English!
Sorry if I have not been clear enough, but I referred to the top part of the wheat plant, where the grain is. Birdeen's call has published a link to Wikipedia for the word "Ear (botany)". This is exactly what I'm looking for (at least, what's depicted in the photo), but I'm not sure if the other two words (spike and wheat stalk) refers to the same concept.
Thanks.
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