FEEDGRAIN Synonyms

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

• the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

• (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• something sentimental or trite

• feed (cattle) with corn

• preserve with large-grained rock salt

• the seed of the cereal grass

• 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

• whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

• economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

• annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum

• made from juice of sweet sorghum

• annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

• grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

• a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

• annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

• seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')