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noun

any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn.

the grain itself.

some edible preparation of it, especially a breakfast food.

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adjective

of or pertaining to grain or the plants producing it.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin Cereālis of, pertaining to Ceres; see -al¹

Related forms

non·ce·re·al, adjective, noun

Can be confused: cereal, serial.

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To the nation's biggest cereal makers, shredded wheat is worth fighting for.

And many have given generational labels no more consideration than the ingredients of their breakfast cereal.

Cyclical influences include re-stocking: cereal stocks were run down as prices spiked and need to be replenished.

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To the nation's biggest cereal makers, shredded wheat is worth fighting for.

And many have given generational labels no more consideration than the ingredients of their breakfast cereal.

Cyclical influences include re-stocking: cereal stocks were run down as prices spiked and need to be replenished.

High-fiber breakfast cereal is a good way to get both types of fiber content.

Pouring a bowl of cereal is a morning ritual for many people.

The secret, an unlikely ingredient, is cooked breakfast cereal.

The corn flake makes its debut, not as a commercial breakfast cereal but as a dietary supplement.

The cereal company said it cut too many workers, and suffered manufacturing problems as a result.

It was crushing, since it was always advertised on tv, to not be able to taste this supposedly wonderful cereal.

They also eat cereal and drink milk from cartons, and wipe their bottoms with loo roll.

Copycat cereal manufacturers popped up overnight, and the town became the birthplace of the cereal industry.

The project is also investigating why rice, the only cereal that is not damaged by the rust, is immune.

And it sure makes harvesting a handful for your cereal every morning, as her husband does, convenient.

Keeping milk fresh was the roadway to selling more cereal.

They are never far from us, the cereal mascots of our youth.

Lower down, the more fertile hills are terraced and planted with cereal crops.

It is the tiger of trademarks-on cereal boxes, on gasoline pumps-and of school and professional sports teams.

The researchers placed the same nine ads for products such as soft drinks, laundry detergent and cereal in all of the shows.

But picking an e-book reader is more difficult than choosing a brand of cereal or a bottle of shampoo.

The prospect of bumper cereal crops has boosted confidence about short-term supply.

Rising cereal costs, experts say, are pumping up the cost of the wheat flour used to make pizza dough.

Now it¿s a question of what do all the cereal genes do.

The simplest ones can be made from an old section of cereal box with a handful of chopped-down black straws inside.

Now that prices have risen back to the levels of the mid-1990s, cereal production has resumed its upward trend.

So are junk mailings, paper bags, cereal boxes and wrapping paper.

Generally, all the milk used was used in cooking and only a little for cereal.

Built on the spot from cereal boxes, tubes or anything else that's lying around.

In hotels that do offer breakfast it is not uncommon to see only breakfast sandwiches and boxed cereal.

He served these flakes to patients as a ready-to-eat breakfast cereal.

Beef only requires all that cereal because it's being improperly fed.

It would make a great opera, or breakfast cereal commercial.

Even cut-out sections of cereal boxes look great in scrapbooks.

Rhizopertha dominica, that can ruin stockpiles of cereal.

Suppose you want to buy some huge boxes of cereal that they have at these discount stores.

We ate cereal with powdered milk and it tasted good to me.

Stir and cool the cereal before serving to avoid hot spots that could burn your baby's mouth.

The world's cereal farmers responded enthusiastically to price signals by planting more high-value crops.

Make this flavorful fruit-and-nut mixture at the beginning of the week and sprinkle it on warm breakfast cereal or yogurt.

The cereal company stood by its full-year earnings forecast, saying it would spend more on advertising and product development.

Made mainly from flattened cereal crops such as wheat and barley, these earliest examples were fairly simple in design.

The cereal maker is increasing prices on some of its products to offset higher ingredient costs.

These have included flints, animal bones, and remnants of fruit and cereal grains.

Or that she wanted more cereal by touching her fingertips together.

Then you can replace the poor kid stocking milk and cereal boxes at the grocery store.

Leguminous trees planted alongside crops would fix nitrogen in the soil and raise cereal yields.

But lawyers will dine for months, if not years, on the cereal giant's woes.

With all the focus on child health one has to walk into the kids cereal section to see the results.

Nichols to be a vice chairman of the big cereal company.

Bears have been used to sell everything from beer to breakfast cereal to fabric softener.

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World English Dictionary

cereal (ˈsɪərɪəl)

—n
1.	any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet
2.	the grain produced by such a plant
3.	any food made from this grain, esp breakfast food
4.	(modifier) of or relating to any of these plants or their products: cereal farming

[C19: from Latin cereālis concerning agriculture, of Ceres¹]

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Word Origin & History

cereal

1832, "grass yielding edible grain," originally an adj. (1818), from Fr. céréale, from L. Cerealis "of grain," originally "of Ceres," from Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture, from PIE base *ker-, *kre- "to grow." The application to breakfast food is Amer.Eng. 1899.

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cereal (sîr'ē-əl) Pronunciation Key
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.

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