grain
Definitions of grain
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a small hard fruittypes:graine comestiblemany are used as seasoninggrainedry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian cornmarron d'Indethe inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnutgrainea single whole grain of a cerealtype of:fruitthe ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testatype of:ovulea small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization
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a relatively small granular particle of a substance
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