cereal

cereal

any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain such as wheat, oats, rice, corn, etc.; a food prepared from grain: Would you like hot or cold cereal for breakfast?
Not to be confused with:serial – consisting of a series: serial monogamy; in installments: magazine serials

ce·re·al

C0209300 (sîr′ē-əl)n.1. a. A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.b. The grain of such a grass.2. Any of several other plants or their edible seeds or fruit, such as buckwheat or certain species of amaranth.3. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.adj. Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.

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[From Latin cereālis, of grain, from Cerēs, Ceres; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

cereal

(ˈsɪərɪəl) n1. (Plants) any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet2. (Plants) the grain produced by such a plant3. (Cookery) any food made from this grain, esp breakfast food4. (Plants) (modifier) of or relating to any of these plants or their products: cereal farming. [C19: from Latin cereālis concerning agriculture, of Ceres¹]

ce•re•al

(ˈsɪər i əl)

n. 1. any plant of the grass family, as wheat, rye, oats, or corn, yielding an edible grain. 2. the grain itself. 3. some edible preparation of it, esp. a breakfast food. adj. 4. of or pertaining to grain or the plants producing it. [1590–1600; < Latin Cereālis of, pertaining to Ceres; see -al¹]

ce·re·al

(sîr′ē-əl) A grass, such as corn or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cereal - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; milletcereal grassgrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayoat - annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')barley - cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grainrice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paperrice grass, ricegrass - any grass of the genus Oryzopsisbulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum - tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beerSecale cereale, rye - hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvementmillet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusinegrain - a cereal grass; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas"wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grainscorn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian timescorn - (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)wild rice, Zizania aquatica - perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
	2.	cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grassesfood grain, grainfood product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as foodedible corn, corn - ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human foodgrist - grain intended to be or that has been groundgroats - the hulled and crushed grain of various cerealsmillet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italicabarley, barleycorn - a grain of barleybuckwheat - grain ground into flourwheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flouroat - seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polishedIndian rice, wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North Americamalt - a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
	3.	cereal - a breakfast food prepared from grainbreakfast food - any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfastPablum - a soft form of cereal for infantshot cereal - a cereal that is served hotcold cereal, dry cereal - a cereal that is not heated before serving
Adj.	1.	cereal - made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"

cereal

see rice and other cereals

Translations

谷物谷类谷类制成的早餐谷类食品

cereal

(ˈsiəriəl) noun1. a kind of grain used as food. Wheat and barley are cereals; (also adjective) cereal crops. 穀類 谷类2. a type of breakfast food prepared from such grain. 早餐吃的穀類食品 谷类制成的早餐

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