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单词 cereal grass
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cereal grass
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cereal grass: cereal grasses
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Sorghum is a drought tolerant cereal grass native to Africa, but it's widely cultivated throughout the world, including in the U.S.,
US News(Jan 28, 2016)
The North African cereal grass is rich in manganese, iron, fiber, protein, B vitamins and zinc.
Time(Mar 09, 2015)
What we think of as "grains"—rice, wheat, corn, oats, barley—are actually the mature, dormant seeds of cereal grasses.
US News(Nov 27, 2012)
n grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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cereal
oat
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
barley
cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
rice
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
rice grass, ricegrass
any grass of the genus Oryzopsis
Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet
tall 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, rye
hardy 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
millet
any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
grain
a cereal grass
wheat
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
Indian corn, Zea mays, corn, maize
tall 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 rice
perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
Avena sativa, cereal oat
widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grass
common in meadows and pastures
Avena barbata, slender wild oat
oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oat
Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, sanwa millet
coarse 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, yardgrass
coarse 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, ragi
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
Hordeum vulgare, common barley
grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
Hordeum murinum, barley grass, wall barley
European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass
barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
Hordeum pusillum, little barley
annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
Oryza sativa, cultivated rice
yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrass
valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grass
perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America
panic grass
any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
sorghum
economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat
wheat 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 wheat
wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals
Triticum aestivum, common wheat
widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain
Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta, spelt
hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
Triticum dicoccum, emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt
hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat
found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat
field corn
corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant
a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
Zea mays everta, popcorn
corn 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
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