CEREAL

cereal

(adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; “a cereal beverage”; “cereal grasses”

cereal

(noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain

grain, food grain, cereal

(noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

cereal, cereal grass

(noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

cereal (countable and uncountable, plural cereals)

(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

Synonyms

• (edible grains): foodgrain

Anagrams

• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace

Proper noun

Cereal

A village in Alberta, Canada.

Adjective

Cereal (comparative more Cereal, superlative most Cereal)

Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.

Anagrams

• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace

Source: Wiktionary

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Ce"re*al, a. Etym: [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See Ceres.]

Definition: 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.

Definition: Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself;

– usually in the plural.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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