Applied collectively to the cereal plants while growing, or, while still containing the grain.

Any of numerous leguminous plants of the genus Vicia, typically having numerous elongated leaflets in opposite pairs; esp. V. sativa, typically…

collective singular. The fruit or seed of wheat and the allied food-plants or grasses (†rarely of beans, etc.); the plants themselves whether reaped…

spec. Corn, growing corn, corn-crop. Obsolete.

(usually in plural; also in Latin form cerealia.) A name given to those plants of the family Graminaceæ or grasses which are cultivated for their…