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grain

  • noun
  • /ɡɹeɪn/

The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

Example

“We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.”

Other meanings

  1. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

  2. A single seed of grass food crops.

Example sentences

  • “They love to go against the grain.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "grānum" (seed).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “grain” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.