cereal
noun/ˈsɪəriəl/
/ˈsɪriəl/
- [countable] one of various types of grass that produce grains that can be eaten or are used to make flour or bread. wheat, barley and rye are all cereals.
- cereal crops
Oxford Collocations Dictionarycereal + noun- crop
- foods
- grain
- …
- [uncountable] the grain produced by cereal cropsTopics Foodb2Oxford Collocations Dictionarycereal + noun
- crop
- foods
- grain
- …
- [countable, uncountable] food made from the grain of cereals, often eaten for breakfast with milk
- breakfast cereals
- a bowl of cereal
Homophones cereal | serialcereal serial/ˈsɪəriəl//ˈsɪriəl/- cereal noun
- He took a box of breakfast cereal from the cupboard and put it on the table.
- serial noun
- All the female characters in this serial are very strong.
- serial adjective
- The novel was first published in serial form.
Extra ExamplesTopics Foodb2- I have cereal for breakfast.
- a wholewheat cereal fortified with B-group vitamins
- fortified breakfast cereals
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- breakfast
- bran
- high-fibre/high-fiber
- …
- bowl
- box
- packet
- …
- eat
- have
- bowl
- box
- packet
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent. (as an adjective): from Latin cerealis, from Ceres, the goddess of agriculture in Roman mythology.
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