cereals

noun

a breakfast food prepared from grain

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat

adjective

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Roots

cerescereal- · Latin · goddess of grain

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Where does cereals come from?

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