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cereal
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cereal
n.
grain; food made from this grain
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Cereal
A cereal is any true grass cultivated for the edible components of its grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran. Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple crops. Some plants often referred to as cereals, like buckwheat and quinoa, are considered instead pseudocereals, since they are not grasses.
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cereal
Noun
1. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
(synonym) cereal grass
(hypernym) grass
(hyponym) oat
2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
(synonym) grain, food grain
(hypernym) foodstuff, food product
(hyponym) corn, edible corn
3. a breakfast food prepared from grain
(hypernym) breakfast food
(hyponym) Pablum
Adjective
1. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
(pertainym) grain, caryopsis
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cereal
adj.
cereal, grainlike
cereal
nm.
cereal, grain; food made from this grain; breakfast cereal
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cereal (m)
n.
corn meal, cereal, corn
