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CEREAL GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

Synonyms:

cereal; cereal grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cereal grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cereal grass"):

oat (annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: 'oats'))

barley (cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain)

rice (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)

rice grass; ricegrass (any grass of the genus Oryzopsis)

bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum (tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer)

rye; Secale cereale (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)

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

grain (a cereal grass)

wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)

corn; Indian corn; maize; Zea mays (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)

corn ((Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland))

wild rice; Zizania aquatica (perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food)

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