cereal

annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains

common in meadows and pastures

oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia

Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat

cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain

grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages

European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows

barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia

annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America

annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America

tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing

coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States

coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

a cereal grass

annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America

wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals

widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain

hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed

found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating

corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food

ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft

hulled corn with the bran and germ removed

small kernels of corn exploded by heat

grain intended to be or that has been ground

the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals

small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

a grain of barley

barley ground into small round pellets

grain ground into flour

grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

parched crushed wheat

grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces

seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer

having husk or outer brown layers removed

rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field

grains of aquatic grass of North America

a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling

unfermented or fermenting malt

a soft form of cereal for infants

a cereal that is served hot

cornmeal boiled in water

coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States

boiled or baked buckwheat

sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat

a cereal that is not heated before serving

cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar

bran flakes with raisins

crisp flake made from corn

wheat flake including the bran

crisp flake made from wheat

puffy rice kernels

puffy wheat berries