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cereal
(encz) | cereal,obilí n: pl. Jiří Šmoldas |
cereal
(encz) | cereal,obilní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cereal
(encz) | cereal,obilnina n: Jiří Šmoldas |
cereal
(encz) | cereal,obilný adj: Jiří Šmoldas |
cereal
(encz) | cereal,obilovina n: Zdeněk Brož |
Cereal
(gcide) | Cereal \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to
agriculture. See Ceres.]
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for
their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their
seeds or grain.
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Cereal
(gcide) | Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n.
Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain
itself; -- usually in the plural.
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cereal
(wn) | cereal
adj 1: made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that
produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses"
n 1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice;
rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal, {cereal
grass}]
2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
[syn: grain, food grain, cereal]
3: a breakfast food prepared from grain |
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cereal bowl
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cereal box
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cereal component
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cereal facility
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cereal grass
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cereal oat
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cereals
(encz) | cereals,obilniny n: Zdeněk Brožcereals,obiloviny Jiří Šmoldascereals,vločky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
cold cereal
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compensatory financing of fluctuations in the cost of cereal imports
(encz) | compensatory financing of fluctuations in the cost of cereal imports, |
dry cereal
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hot cereal
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Butalis cerealella
(gcide) | Grain \Grain\ (gr[=a]n), n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed,
small kernel, small particle. See Corn, and cf. Garner,
n., Garnet, Gram the chick-pea, Granule, Kernel.]
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1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those
plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
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2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food
of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants
themselves; -- used collectively.
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Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
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3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.;
hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of
gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
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I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved.
--Milton.
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4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called
because considered equal to the average of grains taken
from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains
constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the
pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
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5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes;
hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson,
scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent
to Tyrian purple.
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All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton.
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Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped
their silks in colors of less value, then give' them
the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by
Coleridge,
preface to
Aids to
Reflection.
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6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement
of the particles of any body which determines its
comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble,
sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
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Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden.
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7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in
wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
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Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
--Shak.
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8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any
fibrous material.
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9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on
that side. --Knight.
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10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or
distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
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11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in
the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
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12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.]
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Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward.
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13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.]
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He cheweth grain and licorice,
To smellen sweet. --Chaucer.
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Against the grain, against or across the direction of the
fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes;
unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty.
--Swift. --Saintsbury.
A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a
small allowance.
Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the
grain into sheaves.
Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes insect.
Grain leather.
(a) Dressed horse hides.
(b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side
for women's shoes, etc.
Grain moth (Zool.), one of several small moths, of the
family Tineid[ae] (as Tinea granella and {Butalis
cerealella}), whose larv[ae] devour grain in storehouses.
Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which
the hair has been removed; -- opposed to flesh side.
Grains of paradise, the seeds of a species of amomum.
grain tin, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with
charcoal.
Grain weevil (Zool.), a small red weevil ({Sitophilus
granarius}), which destroys stored wheat and other grain,
by eating out the interior.
Grain worm (Zool.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain
moth}, above.
In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate;
genuine. "Anguish in grain." --Herbert.
To dye in grain, to dye of a fast color by means of the
coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n., 5]; hence, to dye
firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material.
See under Dye.
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The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . .
Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser.
To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to;
to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.
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Cereal
(gcide) | Cereal \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to
agriculture. See Ceres.]
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for
their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their
seeds or grain.
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Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain
itself; -- usually in the plural.
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Cerealia
(gcide) | Cerealia \Ce`re*a"li*a\, n. pl. [L. See Cereal.]
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1. (Antiq.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres.
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2. The cereals. --Crabb.
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Cerealin
(gcide) | Cerealin \Ce"re*a*lin\, n. (Chem.)
A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained
from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into
dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. --Watts.
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Gelechia cerealella
(gcide) | Angoumois moth \An`gou`mois" moth"\ (?; 115). [So named from
Angoumois in France.] (Zool.)
A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very
destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the
interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.
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Secale cereale
(gcide) | Rye \Rye\ (r[imac]), n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel.
rugr, Sw. r[*a]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G.
rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr.
'o`ryza rice. Cf. Rice.]
1. (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ({Secale
cereale}), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant
itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff
used by man.
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2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth.
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Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass.
See also Ray grass, and Darnel.
Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall
grasses with much the appearance of rye.
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Thrips cerealium
(gcide) | Pungled \Pun"gled\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has
lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the
wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).
[1913 Webster]Thrips \Thrips\, n. [L., a woodworm, Gr. ?.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially
those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips
(Thrips cerealium).
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Note: The term is also popularly applied to various other
small injurious insects.
[1913 Webster]Wheat \Wheat\ (hw[=e]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[=ae]te; akin to
OS. hw[=e]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti,
Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See
White.] (Bot.)
A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which
furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the
grain most largely used by the human race.
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Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat,
white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat,
summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist
as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its
origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses.
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Buck wheat. (Bot.) See Buckwheat.
German wheat. (Bot.) See 2d Spelt.
Guinea wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn.
Indian wheat, or Tartary wheat (Bot.), a grain
(Fagopyrum Tartaricum) much like buckwheat, but only
half as large.
Turkey wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn.
Wheat aphid, or Wheat aphis (Zool.), any one of several
species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap
of growing wheat.
Wheat beetle. (Zool.)
(a) A small, slender, rusty brown beetle ({Sylvanus
Surinamensis}) whose larvae feed upon wheat, rice, and
other grains.
(b) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle ({Anobium
paniceum}) whose larvae eat the interior of grains of
wheat.
Wheat duck (Zool.), the American widgeon. [Western U. S.]
Wheat fly. (Zool.) Same as Wheat midge, below.
Wheat grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Agropyrum caninum)
somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts
of Europe and America.
Wheat jointworm. (Zool.) See Jointworm.
Wheat louse (Zool.), any wheat aphid.
Wheat maggot (Zool.), the larva of a wheat midge.
Wheat midge. (Zool.)
(a) A small two-winged fly (Diplosis tritici) which is very
destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America.
The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the
larvae suck the juice of the young kernels and when full
grown change to pupae in the earth.
(b) The Hessian fly. See under Hessian.
Wheat moth (Zool.), any moth whose larvae devour the grains
of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See
Angoumois Moth, also Grain moth, under Grain.
Wheat thief (Bot.), gromwell; -- so called because it is a
troublesome weed in wheat fields. See Gromwell.
Wheat thrips (Zool.), a small brown thrips ({Thrips
cerealium}) which is very injurious to the grains of
growing wheat.
Wheat weevil. (Zool.)
(a) The grain weevil.
(b) The rice weevil when found in wheat.
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cereal bowl
(wn) | cereal bowl
n 1: a bowl for holding breakfast cereal |
cereal box
(wn) | cereal box
n 1: a paper box in which breakfast cereals are sold |
cereal grass
(wn) | cereal grass
n 1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice;
rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal, {cereal
grass}] |
cereal oat
(wn) | cereal oat
n 1: widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible
grains [syn: cereal oat, Avena sativa] |
cold cereal
(wn) | cold cereal
n 1: a cereal that is not heated before serving [syn: {cold
cereal}, dry cereal] |
dry cereal
(wn) | dry cereal
n 1: a cereal that is not heated before serving [syn: {cold
cereal}, dry cereal] |
hot cereal
(wn) | hot cereal
n 1: a cereal that is served hot |
secale cereale
(wn) | Secale cereale
n 1: 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
[syn: rye, Secale cereale] |
sitotroga cerealella
(wn) | Sitotroga cerealella
n 1: small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains
[syn: angoumois moth, angoumois grain moth, {Sitotroga
cerealella}] |
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