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cereal

Definitions of cereal
  1. noun
    foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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    types:
    maíz
    ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
    avena
    the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
    mijo
    small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
    cebada
    a grain of barley
    alforfón, trigo sarraceno
    grain ground into flour
    trigo
    grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
    avena
    seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
    arroz
    grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
    malta
    a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
    maíz
    corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft
    palomitas, palomitas de maíz
    small kernels of corn exploded by heat
    arroz integral
    unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
    type of:
    comida, producto alimenticio
    a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
  2. noun
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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    types:
    cebada
    cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
    arroz
    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    centeno
    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
    mijo
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    mies, trigo
    annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    borona, capi, capia, elote, maíz
    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
    sorgo
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
    espelta
    hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
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    hierba
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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