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cereal, a. and n.|ˈsɪəriːəl, -ɪəl|
[ad. L. Cereālis pertaining to Ceres, the goddess of agriculture: cf. mod.F. céréale.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to corn or edible grain.
1818Colebrooke Import. Colon. Corn 20 Wheat..is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 19 The sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 276 Corn-producing or Cereal Grasses, called Cereals.
B. n.
a. (usually in pl.; also in Lat. form cerealia.) A name given to those plants of the family Graminaceæ or grasses which are cultivated for their seed as human food; commonly comprised under the name corn or grain. (Sometimes extended to cultivated leguminous plants.)
1832Veg. Subst. Food 10 The chief corn-plants, or cerealia, are wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet, rice, and maize. 1868Darwin Anim. & Pl. I. ix. 318 The slow and gradual improvement of our cereals. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. iv. 54 The cultivation of this cereal.
b. An article of food (esp. a breakfast dish) made from a cereal; freq. breakfast cereal. orig. U.S.
1899Chicago Daily News 9 May 7 Free with 6 packages of Hazel Cereals, any assortment, a handsomely decorated tea canister. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 11/2 Breakfast cereals. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay ii. iii. 196 There's all these patent grain foods,—what Americans call cereals. 1934A. Thirkell Wild Strawberries iv. 95 Clarissa looked so sweet eating her cereals. 1958Wodehouse Cocktail Time xii. 103 when I was a young man..there were no cereals. We ate good wholesome porridge for breakfast and throve on it. 1962A. Christie Mirror Crack'd i. 9 All these great packets of breakfast cereal instead of cooking a child a proper breakfast of bacon and eggs.
¶ Used to render L. Cerealia, ancient Roman games in honour of Ceres.
1600Holland Livy xxx. xxxix. 768 The Dictatour and Generall..exhibited the games called Cereales..to the honour of Ceres.
Hence cereˈalian, cereˈalic adjs.; ˈcerealism (after vegetarianism).
1849Thoreau Week Concord Riv. 235 These cerealian blossoms expanded. 1881Academy 1 Oct. 252 A vast cerealic and frugiferous region. 1888G. J. Holyoake in Co-operative News 14 Apr. 337 The progress which vegetarianism, or rather cerealism, is making everywhere.
▸ cereal bar n. orig. U.S. a pre-packaged food similar in size and shape to a chocolate bar, made of cereal and (typically) fruit; cf. breakfast bar (c) at breakfast n. Additions
In quot. 1945: a similar homemade piece of confectionery.
1945Los Angeles Times 4 Dec. a6/2 Chocolate truffles, shredded kisses and special *cereal bars will be among the luscious array of sweet-tooth tempters. 1949Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 28 July 10/5 The arctic ration contains the 1800 calorie minimum. It consists of two kinds of cereal bars, a dried fruit bar, a nut bar and three kinds of chocolate and candy bars. 1961Kansas City (Missouri) Times 16 Aug. 2 Ten Nebraska penitentiary inmates today began a 10-day test of a cereal bar developed by the State department of agriculture as a possible survival ration. 2006Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Oct. 3 These days, you're not really meant to have breakfast. You just have a cereal bar on the way in to work. |