'Cereal' definitions:
Definition of 'cereal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
noun
Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal, cereal grass]
noun
Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses [syn: grain, food grain, cereal]
noun
A breakfast food prepared from grain
Definition of 'Cereal'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cereal'
From: GCIDE
- Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cereal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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