food grain

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food grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grassescereal, grainfood product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as foodedible corn, corn - ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human foodgrist - grain intended to be or that has been groundgroats - the hulled and crushed grain of various cerealsmillet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italicabarley, barleycorn - a grain of barleybuckwheat - grain ground into flourwheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flouroat - seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polishedIndian rice, wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North Americamalt - a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling