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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses" n
1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal, cereal grass]
2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses [syn: grain, food grain, cereal]
3: a breakfast food prepared from grain

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: French or Latin; French céréale, from Latin cerealis of Ceres, of grain, from Ceres Date: 1818 relating to grain or to the plants that produce it; also made of grain II. noun Date: 1832 1. a plant (as a grass) yielding starchy grain suitable for food; also its grain 2. a prepared foodstuff of grain (as oatmeal or cornflakes)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj --n. 1 (usu. in pl.) a any kind of grain used for food. b any grass producing this, e.g. wheat, maize, rye, etc. 2 a breakfast food made from a cereal and requiring no cooking. --adj. of edible grain or products of it. Etymology: L cerealis f. Ceres goddess of agriculture

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cereal Ce"re*al n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cereal Ce"re*al, a. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cereals) 1. Cereal or breakfast cereal is a food made from grain. It is mixed with milk and eaten for breakfast. I have a bowl of cereal every morning. N-MASS 2. Cereals are plants such as wheat, corn, or rice that produce grain. ...the rich cereal-growing districts of the Paris Basin. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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