Cereal definition

Cereal

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WordNet

(1) Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

"A cereal beverage"

"Cereal grasses"

(2) A breakfast food prepared from grain

(3) Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

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

WiktionaryText

cereal

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

(uncountable): Would you like some cereal?

(countable): Which cereal would you like for breakfast?