1. A breakfast food prepared from grain
   "He poured milk over his favourite crunchy cereal"
    
2. Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
   "Cereal grasses form the basis of many staple foods worldwide";
   - cereal grass
    
3. Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
   "Rice and wheat are common food cereals in many cultures";
   - grain, food grain

1. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
   "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"

Sounds like: serial

Derived forms: cereals

Type of: breakfast food, food product, foodstuff, grass

Encyclopedia: Cereal, Alberta