Definitions of cereal grass
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grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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synonyms:
cereal
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oat
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
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barley
a plant cultivated since prehistoric times, grown for forage and grain
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rice
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
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rice grass, ricegrass
any grass of the genus Oryzopsis
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Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet
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
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Secale cereale, rye
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
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millet
any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
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grain
a cereal grass
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wheat
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
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Indian corn, Zea mays, corn, maize
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
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corn
(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
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Zizania aquatica, wild rice
perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
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Avena sativa, cereal oat
widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
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Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grass
common in meadows and pastures
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Avena barbata, slender wild oat
oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
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Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oat
Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
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Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
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Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, sanwa millet
coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
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Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass
coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
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African millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan, corakan, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
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Hordeum vulgare, common barley
grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
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Hordeum murinum, barley grass, wall barley
European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
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Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass
barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
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Hordeum pusillum, little barley
annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
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Oryza sativa, cultivated rice
yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
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Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrass
valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
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Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grass
perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America
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panic grass
any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
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sorghum
economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
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Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat
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
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soft wheat
wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals
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Triticum aestivum, common wheat
widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain
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Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta, spelt
hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
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Triticum dicoccum, emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt
hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
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Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat
found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat
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field corn
corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
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Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant
a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
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Zea mays everta, popcorn
corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
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type of:
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grass
narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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