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Definition of Cereal
1. Noun. Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Specialized synonyms: Oat, Barley, Rice, Rice Grass, Ricegrass, Bulrush Millet, Cattail Millet, Pearl Millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum Glaucum, Rye, Secale Cereale, Millet, Grain, Wheat, Corn, Indian Corn, Maize, Zea Mays, Corn, Wild Rice, Zizania Aquatica
2. Adjective. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it. "Cereal grasses"
3. Noun. Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses.
Generic synonyms: Food Product, Foodstuff
Specialized synonyms: Corn, Edible Corn, Grist, Groats, Millet, Barley, Barleycorn, Buckwheat, Wheat, Wheat Berry, Oat, Rice, Indian Rice, Wild Rice, Malt
4. Noun. A breakfast food prepared from grain.
Definition of Cereal
1. a. Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
2. n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
Definition of Cereal
1. Noun. A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. ¹
2. Noun. The grains of such a grass. ¹
3. Noun. Breakfast cereal. ¹
4. Noun. A particular type of breakfast cereal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cereal
1. a food made from grain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cereal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cereal
Literary usage of Cereal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food in the Third World: Past Trends and Projections to 2000 by Leonardo A. Paulino (1986)
"As expected, Asia leads the developing regions in the volume of cereal imports;
... North Africa/Middle East and Latin America had cereal import shares of ..."
2. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1892)
"But the most Aboriginal important reason for the superiority of cereal agricul-
... It is the peculiar quality of cereal agriculture that by occupying man ..."
3. Food Security in the Sahel: Variable Import Levy, Grain Reserves, and by John McIntire (1981)
"The Model's Basic Equations cereal Production and Consumption Equation (5) gives
expected total cereal production in each of the seven countries. where Qlt ..."
4. Closing the Cereals Gap with Trade and Food Aid by Barbara Huddleston (1984)
"Volume of cereal imports and the share of food aid in cereal imports, ...
Volume of cereal imports in 1981 and requirements in 1990 under four scenarios 26. ..."
5. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Starch. A microscopic examination of the weighed insoluble residue will usually
serve to identify its components. Any un-nitrated starch or cereal products ..."
6. Diet in health and disease by Julius Friedenwald (1913)
"The cereal should be cooked over the fire for ten or fifteen minutes. ...
The cereal is added gradually and the whole stirred to prevent it from burning. ..."
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