cereal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A breakfast food made from grain, usually eaten with milk.

   She had a bowl of cereal for breakfast.

2. 2
   noun

   A grain crop such as wheat, rice, or oats, grown to be eaten.

   Wheat is one of the world's most important cereals.

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to grain or the plants that produce it.

   The country exports large amounts of cereal crops.

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

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