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FOOD GRAIN Synonyms

There are 11 synonyms of the phrase food grain. (exact relations)
There are 2 hypernyms of the phrase food grain. (close relations)
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barley
nounn
noun

• a grain of barley

• cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain

corn
nounn
noun

• 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

verb

• feed (cattle) with corn

• preserve with large-grained rock salt

millet
nounn
noun

• French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

• any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

• small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

rice
nounn
noun

• grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

• English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

• United States playwright (1892-1967)

• annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

verb

• sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

rye
nounn
noun

• 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

sorghum
nounn
noun

• economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

• annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum

• made from juice of sweet sorghum

wheat
nounn
noun

• 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

oats
nounn
noun

• 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')

quinoa
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.

• The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour.

cereal
nounn
adjective

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

noun

• grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• a breakfast food prepared from grain

grain
nounn
noun

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

verb

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

Best Hypernyms For FOOD GRAIN

Here is a list of related hypernyms for food grain, these are close relations that fall within the same topic. Most relevant words are highlighted and in order.
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foodstuff
Phrases (1)
food product

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