cereal

cereal
    adj 1: made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that
           produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
    n 1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice;
         rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: {cereal}, {cereal
         grass}]
    2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
       [syn: {grain}, {food grain}, {cereal}]
    3: a breakfast food prepared from grain
    

Cereal \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to
   agriculture. See {Ceres}.]
   Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for
   their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their
   seeds or grain.
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Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n.
   Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain
   itself; -- usually in the plural.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "cereal":
      aftergrass, bamboo, botanic, breakfast food, bulbous, cane,
      cereal plant, corn, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, farinaceous,
      farinaceous plant, fog, forage grass, fruitlike, fruity, frumenty,
      grain, graminaceous plant, grass, grits, gruel, hasty pudding,
      herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hominy grits,
      hot cereal, kasha, lawn grass, leguminose, leguminous, loblolly,
      millet, mush, oatmeal, ornamental grass, plantlike, porridge,
      puffed rice, puffed wheat, radicated, radiciform, radicular, reed,
      rhizoid, rolled oats, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal,
      vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy, wheatflakes