Cereal

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.
  • noun. The grain of such a grass.
  • noun. Any of several other plants or their edible seeds or fruit, such as buckwheat or certain species of amaranth.
  • noun. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.
  • adjective. Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining or relating to edible grain; producing farinaceous seeds suitable for food.
  • noun. A gramineous plant cultivated for the use of its farinaceous seeds as food; any one of the annual grain-plants, as wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, millet, or maize.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
  • noun. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
  • noun. The grains of such a grass.
  • noun. Breakfast cereal.
  • noun. A particular type of breakfast cereal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
  • noun. a breakfast food prepared from grain
  • adjective. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
  • noun. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  • Word Usage
    "Personally, I've never understood the appeal of marshmallows in cereal if the cereal is any good at all."
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