cereal

noun

1. (countable)A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. (uncountable)The grains of such a grass.
3. (uncountable)Breakfast cereal.

   “Would you like some cereal?”

   “Which cereal would you like for breakfast?”

   “a bowl of cereal”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to cereal.

   “Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.”

   “Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]”

   “The river flows on, washing the base of the sandstone fossiliferous bank at Preston-bridge,—lightening up the rich valley of Preston-haugh,—lending beauty to the open demesnes of Broomhouse, and to the sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne; […]”

   “The species printed in small capitals are Corn-producing or Cereal Grasses, called Cereals, from Ceres, the Roman goddess of Corn.”

2. Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.

   “By means of statues and coinage depicting his wife Livia in the guise of Ceres and himself in the Cereal crown of the Arval Brethren, Augustus implied that his own godlike charisma helped keep the plebeians fed […]”

name

1. A village in Alberta, Canada.