cereal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cereal/ˈsɪəriəl/
▶noun
- 1 a grain used for food, for example wheat, maize, or rye.
■ a grass producing such grain, grown as an agricultural crop.
- 2 a breakfast food made from a cereal grain or grains.
– origin C19 (as adj.): from L. cerealis, from Ceres, the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture.
'cereal' also found in these Oxford entries:
barley
- bulgar wheat
- cereology
- cheat grass
- coleoptile
- combine harvester
- corn
- cornflakes
- crop
- culm
- ear
- farina
- frit fly
- germ
- glume
- gluten
- grain
- granola
- Hessian fly
- kernel
- luncheon meat
- maize
- meal beetle
- millet
- milo
- mow
- oat
- panic
- pearl millet
- porridge
- rye
- sausage meat
- smut ball
- smut mill
- sorghum
- stubble
- teff
- tiller
- triticale
- wheat
