English noun: cereal |
1. | cereal (plant) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet |
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| Synonyms | cereal grass |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grass |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | barley, bulrush millet, cattail millet, corn, corn, grain, Indian corn, maize, millet, oat, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, rice, rice grass, ricegrass, rye, Secale cereale, wheat, wild rice, Zea mays, Zizania aquatica |
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2. | cereal (food) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
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| Synonyms | food grain, grain |
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| Broader (hypernym) | food product, foodstuff |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, corn, edible corn, grist, groats, Indian rice, malt, millet, oat, rice, wheat, wheat berry, wild rice |
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3. | cereal (food) a breakfast food prepared from grain |
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| Broader (hypernym) | breakfast food |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | cold cereal, dry cereal, hot cereal, Pablum |
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