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Cereal   /sˈɪriəl/   Listen
Cereal

noun
1.
Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.  Synonym: cereal grass.
2.
Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses.  Synonyms: food grain, grain.
3.
A breakfast food prepared from grain.
adjective
1.
Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.  "Cereal grasses"



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"Cereal" Quotes from Famous Books



... prunes, apricots, pears, peaches, olives, plums, small Fruit, such as strawberries, blackberries, sweet and common potatoes, garden stuff, and alfalfa. Alfalfa (or lucerne) is a great crop in America in places where there are no old meadow lands for the cows. The land is, of course, suited for all cereal crops, too. All the Fruits named can be dried in ...
— A start in life • C. F. Dowsett

... recollections of travelers in Pennsylvania will be their trip through Lancaster county. For fifty years this county has led the United States in the value of cereal products. Lancaster, the county seat, has a population of fifty-eight thousand. It is one of the oldest towns in the state and was its capital in 1799. It was also the capital of the United States for one day, September ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... Cereal is the name given to those seeds used as food (wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, rice, etc.), which are produced by plants belonging to the vast order known as the grass family. They are used for food both in the unground state and in various forms of ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... a skeleton infantry company of about a hundred men. After the invariable breakfast of fatty bacon, cold toast, and cereal, the entire hundred would rush for the latrines, which, however well-policed, seemed always intolerable, like the lavatories in cheap hotels. Out on the field, then, in ragged order—the lame man on his left grotesquely marring Anthony's ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... she reentered the hotel, her cheeks glowing. Jock was not yet down. So she ordered and ate her wise and cautious breakfast of fruit and cereal and toast and coffee, skimming over her morning paper as she ate. At 7:30 she was back in the lobby, newspaper in hand. The Bisons were already astir. She seated herself in a deep chair in a quiet corner, her eyes glancing up over the top of her paper toward ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various


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