céréales

Definitions of céréales
  1. noun
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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    types:
    blé
    annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    maïs
    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
    type of:
    herbe
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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