Definition of Cereal in English :

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Cereal meaning in English

Meaning of Cereal in English

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Cereal

see synonyms of cereal

Noun

1. cereal, cereal grass

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

2. cereal, food grain, grain

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

3. cereal

a breakfast food prepared from grain

Adjective

4. cereal

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Example Sentences:
'a cereal beverage'
'cereal grasses'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Cereal

see synonyms of cereal
noun
1. 
any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet
2. 
the grain produced by such a plant
3. 
any food made from this grain, esp breakfast food
4. (modifier)
of or relating to any of these plants or their products
cereal farming

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Cereal

see synonyms of cereal
adjective
1. 
of grain or the grasses producing grain
noun
2. 
any grain used for food, as wheat, oats, or rice
3. 
any grass producing such grain
4.  US
food made from grain, esp. breakfast food, as oatmeal or cornflakes

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Cereal

see synonyms of cereal
n.
1.
a. A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.
b. The grain of such a grass.
2. Any of several other plants or their edible seeds or fruit, such as buckwheat or certain species of amaranth.
3. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.
adj.
Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.

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