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cereal
[ seer-ee-uhl ]
noun
- any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn.
- the grain itself.
- some edible preparation of it, especially a breakfast food.
adjective
- of or relating to grain or the plants producing it.
cereal
/ ˈsɪərɪəl /
noun
- any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet
- the grain produced by such a plant
- any food made from this grain, esp breakfast food
- modifier of or relating to any of these plants or their products
cereal farming
cereal
/ sîr′ē-əl /
- A grass, such as corn, rice, sorghum, or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food. Cereals are annual plants, and cereal crops must be reseeded for each growing season. Cereal grasses were domesticated during the Neolithic Period and formed the basis of early agriculture.
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- non·cere·al adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of cereal1
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Example Sentences
Along with crowds, Cereal Killer has also drawn polarizing responses from the public and the media.
Tosi has been using cereal milk as a flavor ever since 2007, and she says it taps into a universal “memory sensor.”
In “Cartoons and Cereal,” he sings, “Reminisce when I had the morning appetite/ Apple Jacks, had nothing that I hit the TV Guide.”
You can even buy containers of their Cereal Milk in select stores.
Cereal brings back memories of lazy mornings and easy extravagance, a time when worries were few and comfort was plenty.
It is the chief cereal, and the inhabitants say it originated in Ha-ram, China, nearly five thousand years ago.
Thank God today would see the end, and they could once more have the hot South Polar crisis with their cereal.
I also discovered a cereal very like barley, which I ground up and made into cakes.
She named the cereal which constituted the only crop to which these marsh lands were suitable.
Flour and other cereal foods are sometimes adulterated with some cheap substitutes, as bran or sawdust.
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