cereal
(adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; āa cereal beverageā; ācereal grassesā
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
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.
• (edible grains): foodgrain
• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace
Cereal
A village in Alberta, Canada.
Cereal (comparative more Cereal, superlative most Cereal)
Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.
• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace
Source: Wiktionary
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
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; ātheir business venture was doomed from the startā; āan ill-fated business ventureā; āan ill-starred romanceā; āthe unlucky prisoner was again put in ironsā- W.H.Prescott
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.