cereal

Adjective
  1. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (synset 302699360)
    "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
Noun
  1. Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat;
    Rice;
    Rye;
    Oats;
    Maize;
    Buckwheat;
    Millet (synset 112162012)
    is a type of: grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • rye, secale cereale - 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 - 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
    same as: cereal grass
  2. Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (synset 107818393)
    is a type of: food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
    subtypes:
    • corn, edible 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
    same as: food grain, grain
  3. A breakfast food prepared from grain (synset 107718541)
    is a type of: breakfast food - any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast
    subtypes:

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