food grain

food grain
noun
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Syn: ↑grain, ↑cereal
Derivationally related forms: ↑cereal (for: ↑cereal)
Hypernyms: ↑foodstuff, ↑food product
Hyponyms:
corn, ↑edible corn, ↑grist, ↑groats, ↑millet, ↑barley, ↑barleycorn, ↑buckwheat, ↑wheat, ↑wheat berry, ↑oat, ↑rice, ↑wild rice, ↑Indian rice, ↑malt

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noun
: a grain (as wheat, rice, rye, or buckwheat) grown for human food

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any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
[1875-80]

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