Define cereals.........?

Question

Define cereals.........?

Answer 1

Edible grains.

Answer 2

1. A grass such as wheat, rice, barley, rye, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.

         2. The grain of such a grass.

         3. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.

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Answer 3

Think of breakfast cereal. They are made fom monocot(grass) species.

Corn, oats, wheat, etc

Answer 4

Cereal crops or grains are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible grains or fruit seeds (i.e., botanically a type of fruit called a caryopsis). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple crops. They are also a rich source of carbohydrate.

Answer 5

e·re·al  (sîr-l)

n.

1.

a. A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.

b. The grain of such a grass.

2. Any of several other plants or their edible seed or fruit, such as buckwheat or grain amaranth.

3. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.

adj.

Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.

[From Latin cerelis, of grain, from Cers, Ceres; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.]

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cereal  (sîr-l)

A grass, such as corn, rice, sorghum, or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food. Cereals are annual plants, and cereal crops must be reseeded for each growing season. Cereal grasses were domesticated during the Neolithic Period and formed the basis of early agriculture.

Answer 6

A grain such as wheat or oats. The cereals we eat for breakfast are further processed grains with additives like sugar, oil, and salt.