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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cereal \Ce"re*al\, adjective [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See {Ceres}.] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cereal
adjective: made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
noun
1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: {cereal grass}]
2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses [syn: {grain}, {food grain}]
3: a breakfast food prepared from grain
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "cereal": aftergrass, bamboo, botanic, breakfast food, bulbous, cane, cereal plant, corn, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, farinaceous, farinaceous plant, fog, forage grass, fruitlike, fruity, frumenty, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, lawn grass, leguminose, leguminous, loblolly, millet, mush, oatmeal, ornamental grass, plantlike, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, radicated, radiciform, radicular, reed, rhizoid, rolled oats, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy, wheatflakes
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