| NOUN | plant | caryopsis, grain | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses |
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| Meaning | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. | |
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| Synonym | grain | |
| Narrower | amaranth | seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America |
| barleycorn | A grain of barley | |
| kernel | A single whole grain of a cereal | |
| rye | The seed of the cereal grass | |
| wheat berry | A grain of wheat | |
| Broader | seed | A small hard fruit |
| Spanish | cariópside, grano | |
| Catalan | cariòpside, cariopsi, gra | |
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