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Cereal   /sˈɪriəl/   Listen
Cereal

noun
1.
Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.  Synonym: cereal grass.
2.
Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses.  Synonyms: food grain, grain.
3.
A breakfast food prepared from grain.
adjective
1.
Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.  "Cereal grasses"



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"Cereal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Plaines and Chee rivers, from Indiana, Illinois, and from the northern peninsula, the Menominee, Escambia, Noquet, White Fish and Manistee rivers. The lake is bounded to the eastward by the rich and fertile land of the southern peninsula, sending out vast quantities of all the cereal grains, equal if not superior in quality to any raised in the United States. It is bounded on the south and southwest by Indiana and Illinois, which supply corn and beef of the finest quality, in superabundance, for exportation. On the west it is bounded by the productive grain and grazing ...
— Old Mackinaw - The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings • W. P. Strickland

... other hand, one must not suppose that the adoption of a fruit and cereal diet will of itself induce to the development of the psychic powers. It will aid by removing the chief impediments of congestion and disease. Many good people who adopt this dietetic reform have a tendency to scratch one another's shoulder blades and expect to find their ...
— Second Sight - A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance • Sepharial

... the trees and in the darkness of night they have received the message of the gods. Others, who have heard the voice amongst the rocks, make their zemes of stone; while others, who heard the revelation while they were cultivating their ages—that kind of cereal I have already mentioned,—make ...
— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

... and should have a meal of dry biscuit the first thing in the morning, whilst the evening meal should consist of a good stew of butcher's offal poured over broken biscuit, bread, or other cereal food. In the winter time it is advantageous to soak a tablespoonful of linseed in water overnight, and after the pods have opened to turn the resulting jelly into the stew pot. This ensures a fine glossy coat, and is of value in toning up the intestines. Care ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... that the Village Indians, who first became possessed of maize, the great American cereal, and of the art of cultivation, did not rise to supremacy over the continent. With their increased numbers and more stable subsistence they might have been expected to extend their power and spread their migrating bands ...
— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan


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