单词 | cereal grass |
释义 | cereal grass (once / 381269 pages) n WORD FAMILY cereal grass: cereal grasses USAGE EXAMPLESSorghum 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper cereal 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 |
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