cereal

Plural: cereals

Noun

A grain used for food, such as wheat, oats, or corn; also, breakfast food.
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
Playing CEREAL earned him a healthy number of points, a satisfying start to his turn.
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, grain, foodgrain

Scrabble Score: 8

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

Words With Friends Score: 10

cereal: valid Words With Friends Word