CEREAL : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: CEREAL	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for CEREAL
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cereal adj made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses" n grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet Synonym(s): cereal, cereal grass foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses Synonym(s): grain, food grain, cereal a breakfast food prepared from grain
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cereal \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See {Ceres}.] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.