Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
Ceres (the Roman counterpart of Demeter) was goddess of grain and the fertility of the earth. From her name is derived the Latin adjective Cerealis (having to do with Ceres and the grain), from which comes our English word, cereal.
Any edible grain that comes from certain grasses, such as wheat.
SEER-ee-uhl] Breakfast cereals are processed foods (usually ready-to-eat) made from cereal grains. W. H. Kellogg and C. W. Post were the first to begin mass-producing these foods, which have become a morning meal staple in the United States.
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
a breakfast food prepared from grain
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
a grain used for food such as wheat or rice
a kind of grain like oats or wheat
food such as wheat, corn or rice, which are grown for us to eat. I have this for breakfast...
a seed-bearing grass which can be harvested and domesticated by man.
crop producing edible grain.
adj. Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
Broad term for a group of grass plant species cultivated as food grains, where as barley is one.
a grass grown for its edible seed, includes corn.
Plants, especially grasses, that produce starchy grains. These were among the first domesticated foods produced during the Neolithic.
Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible grains or seeds (technically a type of fruit called a caryopsis). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provide more food energy to the human race than any other crop. In some developing nations, cereal grains constitute practically the entire diet of common folk.
