单词 | cereal |
释义 | cereal (once / 1962 pages) nadj Cereal is a grassy grain used for food, like corn or wheat. But if someone offers you a bowl of cereal, don’t expect a pile of grass. Cereal is also a popular breakfast food served in a bowl with milk. You can use the word cereal when you talk about a grain crop, the harvested grain, or the prepared breakfast food. Oatmeal is a hot cereal, and Cheerios is a cold one. Originally, cereal meant "having to do with edible grain," from the Latin Cerealis, "of grain," but also "of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture." Next time you enjoy a bowl of Fruit Loops, make sure to thank Ceres, the goddess of agriculture. WORD FAMILYcereal: cereally, cereals USAGE EXAMPLESI referred darkly to an accident with a thresher, despite the fact the closest I’d ever got to harvesting cereals was bulk-buying Coco Pops. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Kind of like when you try a cereal sample at the grocery store then decide not to buy it. Washington Times(Dec 15, 2016) But we should be aware that cereal is not just cereal. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1n grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet Syn|Hypo|Hyper cereal grass oat annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') barleycultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain riceannual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper rice grass, ricegrassany grass of the genus Oryzopsis Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millettall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer Secale cereale, ryehardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement milletany of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine graina cereal grass wheatannual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains Indian corn, Zea mays, corn, maizetall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times corn(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) Zizania aquatica, wild riceperennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food Avena sativa, cereal oatwidely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grasscommon in meadows and pastures Avena barbata, slender wild oatoat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oatMediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grassa coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, sanwa milletcoarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrasscoarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere African millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan, corakan, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragiEast Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient Hordeum vulgare, common barleygrass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages Hordeum murinum, barley grass, wall barleyEuropean annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grassbarley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia Hordeum pusillum, little barleyannual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America Oryza sativa, cultivated riceyields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrassvaluable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grassperennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America panic grassany grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder sorghumeconomically important Old World tropical cereal grass Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheatwheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America soft wheatwheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals Triticum aestivum, common wheatwidely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta, spelthardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed Triticum dicoccum, emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelthard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheatfound wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat field corncorn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn planta corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating Zea mays everta, popcorncorn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat grass narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay 2n foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses Syn|Hypo|Hyper food grain, grain corn, edible corn ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food gristgrain intended to be or that has been ground groatsthe hulled and crushed grain of various cereals milletsmall seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica barley, barleycorna grain of barley buckwheatgrain ground into flour wheat, wheat berrygrains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour oatseed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') ricegrains used as food either unpolished or more often polished Indian rice, wild ricegrains of aquatic grass of North America malta cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling green corn, sweet corncorn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft hominyhulled corn with the bran and germ removed popcornsmall kernels of corn exploded by heat pearl barleybarley ground into small round pellets bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheatparched crushed wheat cracked wheatgrains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces brown riceunpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer polished rice, white ricehaving husk or outer brown layers removed paddyrice in the husk either gathered or still in the field wortunfermented or fermenting malt food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food 3n a breakfast food prepared from grain Hypo|Hyper Pablum a soft form of cereal for infants hot cereala cereal that is served hot cold cereal, dry cereala cereal that is not heated before serving cornmeal mush, mushcornmeal boiled in water grits, hominy gritscoarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States kashaboiled or baked buckwheat frumentysweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat granolacereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar raisin branbran flakes with raisins corn flakecrisp flake made from corn bran flakewheat flake including the bran wheatflakecrisp flake made from wheat puffed ricepuffy rice kernels puffed wheatpuffy wheat berries breakfast food any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast 4adj made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it a cereal beverage cereal grasses |
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