Cereal Definition
sîrē-əl
cereals
noun
cereals
Any grain used for food, as wheat, oats, or rice.
Webster's New World
Any grass producing such grain.
Webster's New World
Any of several other plants or their edible seeds or fruit, such as buckwheat or certain species of amaranth.
American Heritage
Food made from grain, esp. breakfast food, as oatmeal or cornflakes.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of grain or the grasses producing grain.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Cereal
Noun
Singular:
cereal
Plural:
cerealsOrigin of Cereal
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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 *ker- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).
From Wiktionary
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From Latin cereālis of grain from Cerēs Ceres ker-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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