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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