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grain

Definitions of grain
  1. noun
    a small hard fruit
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    types:
    graine comestible
    many are used as seasoning
    café, grain de café
    a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
    graine
    dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
    marron d'Inde
    the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
    graine
    a single whole grain of a cereal
    type of:
    fruit
    the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
  2. noun
    a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
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    type of:
    ovule
    a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization
  3. noun
    a relatively small granular particle of a substance
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    types:
    granule
    a tiny grain
    type of:
    atome, molécule, particule
    (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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