English > cereal: 4 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
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| Synonym | cereal grass |
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| Narrower | barley | cultivated since prehistoric times |
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| corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears |
| 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) |
| grain | A cereal grass |
| millet | Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine |
| oat | annual grass of Europe and North Africa |
| pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, Pennisetum glaucum, Pennisetum Americanum | tall grass having cattail like spikes |
| rice | annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses |
| ricegrass, rice grass | Any grass of the genus Oryzopsis |
| 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 |
| wheat | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains |
| wild rice, Zizania aquatica | perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food |
| Broader | grass | Narrow-leaved green herbage |
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| Spanish | cereal |
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| Catalan | cereal |
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| Adjectives | cereal | made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it |
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