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cereal

Dictionary definition · cereal

noun

  1. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
  2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  3. a breakfast food prepared from grain

adjective

  1. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it"a cereal beverage"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).