cereal

Plural: cereals

Noun

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
a breakfast food prepared from grain
A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
The grains of such a grass.
Breakfast cereal.

Adjective

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
- "a cereal beverage"
- "cereal grasses"

Adj

Of or relating to cereal.

Examples

"a bowl of cereal"
"Which cereal would you like for breakfast?"
"Would you like some cereal?"

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).

Synonyms

cereal grass, food grain, foodgrain, grain

Scrabble Score: 8

cereal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
cereal is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cereal is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

cereal is a valid Words With Friends word