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/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ · noun
(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains..
Would you like some cereal?
Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
a bowl of cereal
Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.
Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]
The river flows on, washing the base of the sandstone fossiliferous bank at Preston-bridge,—lightening up the rich valley of Preston-haugh,—lending beauty to the open demesnes of Broomhouse, and to the sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne; […]
The species printed in small capitals are Corn-producing or Cereal Grasses, called Cereals, from Ceres, the Roman goddess of Corn.
Use cereal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cereal means (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains..
Common synonyms include foodgrain, grain, food grain, cereal grass.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Would you like some cereal?
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