cereal

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UK /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ US /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/

noun 3adj 2name 1

Collocations

(noun.) plant

VERB + CEREAL

grow, produce | harvest

CEREAL + NOUN

crop, foods, products | farmer, grower, producer | production

(noun.) food

ADJ

fortified

Many parents choose fortified cereals to ensure their children get enough vitamins each morning.

breakfast | bran, wholegrain, wholewheat

QUANT

bowl

She poured herself a large bowl of cereal before heading to work this morning.

packet

VERB + CEREAL

eat, have

My kids eat cereal every morning before school.

CEREAL + VERB

be fortified

Many popular breakfast cereals are fortified with iron and calcium for growing children.

CEREAL + NOUN

bowl, packet

Definitions

noun

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?

adj

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, […]

name

A village in Alberta, Canada.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

grain

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

shit in someone's cereal

Synonym of piss in someone's cornflakes.

Example Bank

Would you like some cereal?

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Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

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A bowl of cereal

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

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

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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 th

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