What is the meaning of cereal?

noun

  • Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.
  • Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses.
  • A breakfast food prepared from grain.

adjective

  • Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
    • usage: "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
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