cereal

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
3. (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

Adj

Of or relating to cereal.

Synonyms

grain

corn

🌽

cereal grass

porridge

breakfast cereal

food grain

seed

graminoid

atole

herb

🌿

grass

kasha

dry cereal

hot cereal

buckweat groats

cold cereal

barley

graminaceous plant

coriander

farina

flake

flour

grains

gruel

kernel

loblolly

maize

starch

wheat

Translations

Getreide

cereal

céréale

cereale

cereal

cereal

tahıl

cereais

graan

Zerealie

δημητριακά

حُبُوب

Getreidepflanze

blé

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/

Etymology

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).