food grain

Noun
  1. 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: cereal, grain

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