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Cereal : adj : made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that
produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
(noun)
1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice;
rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal grass]
2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
[syn: grain, food grain]
3: a breakfast food prepared from grain
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cereal : \Ce"re*al\ n.
Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain
itself; -- usually in the plural.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cereal : \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to
agriculture. See Ceres.]
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for
their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their
seeds or grain.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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