dry cereal

1. 1.

   a cereal that is not heated before serving

   Synonymscold cereal

   Broadercereal

   Narrowergranolaraisin brancorn flakebran flakewheatflakepuffed ricepuffed wheat

Questions about dry cereal

What does dry cereal mean?

dry cereal means "a cereal that is not heated before serving".

What is another word for dry cereal?

Close synonyms include cold 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 dry cereal a common word?

dry cereal 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.