cereal

ce·re·al  (sîr-l)

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 seed or fruit, such as buckwheat or grain 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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[From Latin cerelis, of grain, from Cers, Ceres; see ker-² in Indo-European roots.]

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cereal

Noun

1. any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, wheat, or rice

2. the grain produced by such a plant

3. a breakfast food made from this grain, usually eaten mixed with milk [Latin cerealis concerning agriculture]

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cereal  (sîr-l)

A grass, such as corn, rice, sorghum, or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food. Cereals are annual plants, and cereal crops must be reseeded for each growing season. Cereal grasses were domesticated during the Neolithic Period and formed the basis of early agriculture.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cereal - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet cereal grass grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay oat - annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') barley - cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain rice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper rice grass, ricegrass - any grass of the genus Oryzopsis bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum - tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer Secale cereale, rye - hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine grain - a cereal grass; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas" wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times corn - (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) wild rice, Zizania aquatica - perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
	2.	cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses food grain, grain food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food edible corn, corn - ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food grist - grain intended to be or that has been ground groats - the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica barley, barleycorn - a grain of barley buckwheat - grain ground into flour wheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour oat - seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished Indian rice, wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North America malt - a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
	3.	cereal - a breakfast food prepared from grain breakfast food - any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast Pablum - a soft form of cereal for infants hot cereal - a cereal that is served hot cold cereal, dry cereal - a cereal that is not heated before serving
Adj.	1.	cereal - made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"

Translations

cereal [ˈsiːrɪəl] n → cereal m

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cereal [ˈsiːrɪəl] n → céréale f

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cereal [ˈsiːrɪəl] n → Getreide nt;

(food) → Getreideflocken pl (Cornflakes etc)

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cereal [ˈsiːrɪəl] n → cereale m