Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cereal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n.
Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain
itself; -- usually in the plural.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cereal
adj : made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that
produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
n 1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice;
rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: {cereal grass}]
2: cereal grain suitable as food for human beings [syn: {grain},
{food grain}]
3: a breakfast food prepared from grain
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