cereal grass

1. 1.

   grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

   Synonymscereal

   Broadergrass

   Narroweroatbarleyricericegrasspearl milletryemilletgrainwheatcorn

Questions about cereal grass

What does cereal grass mean?

cereal grass means "grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet".

What is another word for cereal grass?

Close synonyms include cereal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cereal grass a common word?

cereal grass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.