Meaning | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
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Synonyms | grain, cereal |
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Narrower | barley, barleycorn | A grain of barley |
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buckwheat | grain ground into flour |
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 |
malt | A cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water |
millet | small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica |
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 |
wheat, wheat berry | grains of common wheat |
wild rice, Indian rice | grains of aquatic grass of North America |
Broader | foodstuff, food product | A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food |
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Spanish | cereales, cereal |
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Catalan | cereal |
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