| NOUN | food | food grain, grain, cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
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| Meaning | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. | |
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| Synonyms | grain, cereal | |
| Narrower | barley, barleycorn | A grain of barley |
| 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 |
| Spanish | cereales, cereal | |
| Catalan | cereal | |
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