Cereal

Of grass.   May also be referred to as cereal grass.

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

This concept's ID is @1~60949

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  • corn 7 facts

    Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many...

  • wheat 7 facts

    Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.

  • millet 6 facts

    Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa,...

  • oat 4 facts

    Annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily...

  • barley 4 facts

    Cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain.

  • rice 2 facts

    Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper.

  • ricegrass 2 facts

    Any grass of the genus Oryzopsis.

  • wild rice 1 facts

    Perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food.

  • rye 1 facts

    Hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief...

  • corn 0 facts

    (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat...

  • pearl millet 0 facts

    Tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in...

  • grain 0 facts

    A cereal grass; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas".