cereal
English Thesaurus
1. a breakfast food prepared from grain (noun.food)
hypernym | : | breakfast food, |
definition | : | any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | pablum, |
definition | : | a soft form of cereal for infants (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | hot cereal, |
definition | : | a cereal that is served hot (noun.food) |
2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (noun.food)
hypernym | : | food product, foodstuff, |
definition | : | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | corn, edible corn, |
definition | : | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | grist, |
definition | : | grain intended to be or that has been ground (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | groats, |
definition | : | the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | millet, |
definition | : | small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | buckwheat, |
definition | : | grain ground into flour (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | wheat, wheat berry, |
definition | : | grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | oat, |
definition | : | seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | rice, |
definition | : | grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished (noun.food) |
hyponym | : | malt, |
definition | : | a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling (noun.food) |
3. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | grass, |
definition | : | narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | oat, |
definition | : | annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | barley, |
definition | : | cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | rice, |
definition | : | annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | rye, secale cereale, |
definition | : | hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | millet, |
definition | : | any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | grain, |
definition | : | a cereal grass (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | wheat, |
definition | : | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | corn, indian corn, maize, zea mays, |
definition | : | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | corn, |
definition | : | (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | wild rice, zizania aquatica, |
definition | : | perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food (noun.plant) |
4. a breakfast food prepared from grain (noun.food)
derivation | : | cereal, cereal, cereal, |
definition | : | made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert) |
5. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert)
pertainym | : | caryopsis, grain, |
definition | : | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn (noun.plant) |
derivation | : | cereal, |
definition | : | a breakfast food prepared from grain (noun.food) |
derivation | : | cereal, food grain, grain, |
definition | : | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (noun.food) |
derivation | : | cereal, cereal grass, |
definition | : | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant) |
6. a breakfast food prepared from grain (noun.food)
derivation | : | cereal, cereal, cereal, |
definition | : | made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert) |
7. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert)
pertainym | : | caryopsis, grain, |
definition | : | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn (noun.plant) |
derivation | : | cereal, |
definition | : | a breakfast food prepared from grain (noun.food) |
derivation | : | cereal, food grain, grain, |
definition | : | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (noun.food) |
derivation | : | cereal, cereal grass, |
definition | : | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant) |
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