hot cereal

/hɑt ˌsɪriəl/

Other forms: hot cereals

Definitions of hot cereal

1. noun

   a cereal that is served hot
   types:

   cornmeal mush, mush

   cornmeal boiled in water

   grits, hominy grits

   coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States

   kasha

   boiled or baked buckwheat

   frumenty

   sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat

   atole

   eaten as mush or as a thin gruel

   hasty pudding

   cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)

   polenta

   a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water

   type of:

   cereal

   a breakfast food prepared from grain