NOUN
- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
How To Use cereal grass In A Sentence
- = -- The oat is the seed of a cereal grass, _Avena sativa_ being the species almost always cultivated. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
- Corn, common name for the cereal grass widely grown for food and livestock fodder.
- cereal grasses
- Although the thought of grass conjures up notions of farm food and lawn mowing, cereal grasses such as wheat, barley, oat, rye and kamut are non-toxic and likely the healthiest foods on earth.
- Job's tears (_Croix lachryma_) is another cereal grass, native of the East Indies. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- A molasses known as _sorghum molasses_ is made by boiling the sap of sorghum, which is a stout cereal grass, but this variety is seldom found on the general market, it being used locally where it is manufactured. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals
