Cereal+grain

  • 41grain — n. & v. n. 1 a fruit or seed of a cereal. 2 a (collect.) wheat or any allied grass used as food, corn. b (collect.) their fruit. c any particular species of corn. 3 a a small hard particle of salt, sand, etc. b a discrete particle or crystal, usu …

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  • 42cereal — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

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  • 43cereal grass — noun grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet • Syn: ↑cereal • Derivationally related forms: ↑cereal (for: ↑cereal) • …

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  • 44cereal — I. adjective Etymology: French or Latin; French céréale, from Latin cerealis of Ceres, of grain, from Ceres Date: 1818 relating to grain or to the plants that produce it; also made of grain II. noun Date: 1832 1. a plant (as a grass) yielding… …

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  • 45cereal — noun 1 (C, U) a breakfast food made from grain and usually eaten with milk 2 (C) a plant grown to produce grain for foods, such as wheat, rice etc: cereal crops …

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  • 46cereal — n. & adj n. 1 (usu. in pl.) a any kind of grain used for food. b any grass producing this, e.g. wheat, maize, rye, etc. 2 a breakfast food made from a cereal and requiring no cooking. adj. of edible grain or products of it. Etymology: L cerealis… …

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  • 47grain — noun 1) fields of grain Syn: cereal 2) a grain of corn Syn: kernel, seed 3) grains of sand Syn: granule, particle, speck …

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  • 48grain — greɪn n. cereal; seed; granule; plants producing grain; particle; small portion of; texture, weave v. manufacture grains; crumble into granules; paint in imitation of a grain (such as wood grain) …

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  • 49cereal — /ˈsɪəriəl / (say searreeuhl) noun 1. any gramineous plant yielding an edible farinaceous grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, maize, etc. 2. the grain itself. 3. some edible preparation of it, especially a breakfast food made from some grain.… …

  • 50cereal — [ˈsɪəriəl] noun 1) [C/U] a food made from grain. You eat it with milk for breakfast. 2) [C] any grain that can be made into flour, or a plant that produces grain …

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