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cereal

ce·real

UK/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ US/ˈsiːɹiəl/ fairly common
adjective (1) noun (3)

adjective

1.

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

  • “a cereal beverage”
  • “cereal grasses”

noun

1.

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

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2.

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

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Origin

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). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.

Phrases

  • cereal bar
  • cereal dust
  • cereal killer
  • cereal leaf beetle
  • pee in someone's cereal
  • piss in someone's cereal
  • shit in someone's cereal

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