cereal
nounEtymology
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).
Definitions
A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
The grains of such a grass.
Breakfast cereal.
- Would you like some cereal?
- Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
- a bowl of cereal
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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, […]
A village in Alberta, Canada.
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 […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cereal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cereal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at cereal
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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