cereal meaning
[ 'siəriəl ] Pronunciation: "cereal" in a sentence
- Adjective: cereal si(u)reeul
- Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
"a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
- Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
- cereal grass - Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- grain, food grain - A breakfast food prepared from grain
Sounds like: serial
Derived forms: cereals
See also: grain
Type of: breakfast food, food product, foodstuff, grass
Encyclopedia: Cereal Cereal, Alberta
- Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
[Medicine]
Those grasses (POACEAE) which yield edible seeds commonly recognized as food grains. adj : relating to grain or to the plants that produce it; also : made of grain
n
1 : a plant (as a grass) yielding farinaceous grain suitable for food; also : its grain
2 : a prepared foodstuff of grain
- cereal bar: noun A ...
- cereal bowl: Noun: cereal bowl& ...
- cereal box: Noun: cereal boxA ...
Examples
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- are you going to have cereal for breakfast again?
- he sprinkled sugar over his cereal.
- mycelium on cereal grain is termed mold growth.
- soybeans are handled differently from cereal grains.
- he should eat plenty of fruits, leafy vegetables and coarse cereals.