FOOD GRAIN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Synonyms:

cereal; food grain; grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("food grain" is a kind of...):

food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "food grain"):

corn; edible corn (ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food)

grist (grain intended to be or that has been ground)

groats (the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals)

millet (small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica)

barley; barleycorn (a grain of barley)

buckwheat (grain ground into flour)

wheat; wheat berry (grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour)

oat (seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as 'oats'))

rice (grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished)

Indian rice; wild rice (grains of aquatic grass of North America)

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)