"cereal" in the noun sense

1. cereal, cereal grass

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat rice rye oats maize buckwheat millet

2. grain, food grain, cereal

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

3. cereal

a breakfast food prepared from grain

"cereal" in the adjective sense

1. cereal

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

"a cereal beverage"

"cereal grasses"

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