Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cereal

3 senses of cereal

Sense 1
cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
       => grass -- (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Sense 2
grain, food grain, cereal -- (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
       => foodstuff, food product -- (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)

Sense 3
cereal -- (a breakfast food prepared from grain)
       => breakfast food -- (any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast)

Similarity of adj cereal

1 sense of cereal

Sense 1
cereal -- (made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses")