cereal

Meaning

Noun

• A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
• The grains of such a grass.
• Breakfast cereal.

Related

Similar words

• foodgrain

Origin

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