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Cereal

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

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Barley 76% connected

A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

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Barleycorn 76% connected

A grain or "corn" of barley.

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Buckwheat 76% connected

A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

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Corn 76% connected

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

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Grain 76% connected

See Groan.

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Grist 76% connected

Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.

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Groats 76% connected

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

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Maize 76% connected

A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on c…

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Malt 76% connected

Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in…

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Millet 76% connected

The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are…

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Oat 76% connected

A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

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Rice 76% connected

A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of…

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Rye 76% connected

A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the bre…

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Wheat 76% connected

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the hu…

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Broader term 1

Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Grain 74% connected

See Groan.

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Grain 74% connected

See Groan.

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Caryopsis 66% connected

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one b…

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Grain 92% connected

See Groan.

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