cereal (adj.)

  1. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; a cereal beverage; cereal grasses'

    cereal (n.)

  1. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

    [ Syn: cereal grass ]

  2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

    [ Syn: grain , food grain ]

  3. a breakfast food prepared from grain

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