cereal grass

/ˌsɪriəl græs/

Other forms: cereal grasses

Definitions of cereal grass

1. noun

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

   types:

   oat

   annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

   barley

   a plant cultivated since prehistoric times, grown for forage and grain

   rice

   annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

   rice grass, ricegrass

   any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

   Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet

   tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

   Secale cereale, rye

   hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

   millet

   any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

   grain

   a cereal grass

   wheat

   annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

   Indian corn, Zea mays, corn, maize

   tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

   corn

   (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

   Zizania aquatica, wild rice

   perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food

   Avena sativa, cereal oat

   widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains

   Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grass

   common in meadows and pastures

   Avena barbata, slender wild oat

   oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia

   Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oat

   Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat

   Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass

   a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing

   Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, sanwa millet

   coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States

   Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass

   coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

   African millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan, corakan, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi

   East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

   Hordeum vulgare, common barley

   grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages

   Hordeum murinum, barley grass, wall barley

   European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows

   Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass

   barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia

   Hordeum pusillum, little barley

   annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America

   Oryza sativa, cultivated rice

   yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

   Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrass

   valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

   Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grass

   perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America

   panic grass

   any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

   sorghum

   economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

   Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat

   wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America

   soft wheat

   wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals

   Triticum aestivum, common wheat

   widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain

   Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta, spelt

   hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

   Triticum dicoccum, emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt

   hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed

   Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat

   found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

   field corn

   corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

   Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant

   a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating

   Zea mays everta, popcorn

   corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

   type of:

   grass

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay