cereale

Definitions of cereale
  1. noun
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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    avena
    annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
    orzo
    cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
    riso
    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    miglio
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    frumento, granaglie, grano
    annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    granaglie, granoturco, mais
    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
    farro, spelta
    hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
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    erba
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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