cereal
A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
Other meanings
The grains of such a grass.
Breakfast cereal.
“Would you like some cereal?”
A kind of
- grass
Kinds of cereal
- oat
- barley
- rice
- rice grass
- rye
- millet
- grain
- wheat
Related words
- cerealic
- cerealin
- cerealist
- cerealogy
- noncereal
- cereal bar
- cereal dust
- cereal killer
- cereal leaf beetle
- pseudocereal
- shit in someone's cereal
- pee in someone's cereal
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "Cerealis" (of or relating to Ceres).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cereal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.