cereal grass
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1. 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) |
| derivation | : | cereal, |
| definition | : | made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | cereal, |
| definition | : | made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it (adj.pert) |
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