1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
2. Noun
Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
3. Noun
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
4. Noun
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
5. Noun
a breakfast food prepared from grain
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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