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Cereal

Cereal Meaning & Definition
Cereal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cereal?

[n] a breakfast food prepared from grain
[n] cereal grain suitable as food for human beings
[n] grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
[adj] made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cereal: cereal grass | food grain | grain

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cereal: aftergrass | bamboo | botanic | breakfast food | bulbous | cane | cereal plant | corn | cornflakes | dry cereal | farina | farinaceous | farinaceous plant | fog | forage grass | fruitlike | fruity | frumenty | grain | graminaceous plant | grass | grits | gruel | hasty pudding | herbaceous | herbal | herbose | herbous | herby | hominy grits | hot cereal | kasha | lawn grass | leguminose | leguminous | loblolly | millet | mush | oatmeal | ornamental grass | plantlike | porridge | puffed rice | puffed wheat | radicated | radiciform | radicular | reed | rhizoid | rolled oats | rootlike | tuberous | vegetable | vegetal | vegetarian | vegetational | vegetative | weedy | wheatflakes

See Also | barley | barley | barleycorn | breakfast food | buckwheat | bulrush millet | cattail millet | cold cereal | corn | corn | dry cereal | edible corn | food product | foodstuff | grass | grist | groats | hot cereal | Indian corn | Indian rice | maize | malt | millet | millet | oat | oat | Pablum | pearl millet | Pennisetum Americanum | Pennisetum glaucum | rice | rice | rice grass | ricegrass | rye | Secale cereale | wheat | wheat | wheat berry | wild rice | wild rice | Zea mays | Zizania aquatica

Cereal In Webster's Dictionary

\Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See {Ceres}.] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
\Ce"re*al\ n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

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