graan

Definitions of graan
  1. noun
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
    synonyms: graansoort, koren
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    gerst
    cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
    nasi
    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    rogge
    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
    gierst, kafferkoren, pluimgierst, sorghum
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    tarwe, tarwebrood
    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
    muizegerst
    European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
    gierst, kafferkoren, sorghum
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
    spelt
    hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
    emerkoren
    hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
    popcorn
    corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
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    gras, grasplant, grassoort
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
  2. noun
    dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
    synonyms: graanvrucht, graanvruchten, koren, veldvrucht
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    amarant
    seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
    eksteroog, likdoorn, veldvrucht
    the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
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    zaad, zaadje
    a small hard fruit
  3. noun
    foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
    synonyms: graanproduct, graanprodukt, koren, vlam
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    eksteroog, likdoorn, maïs
    ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
    grutten
    the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
    pluimgierst
    small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
    gerst
    a grain of barley
    boekweit, boekweitbloem
    grain ground into flour
    tarwe, tarwebrood
    grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
    haver
    seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
    nasi, rijst
    grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
    mout
    a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
    pofmaïs, popcorn
    small kernels of corn exploded by heat
    parelgerst, parelgort
    barley ground into small round pellets
    sawa
    rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
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    voedingsmiddel, voedingsmiddelen
    a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
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