FOOD GRAIN Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the phrase food grain. (close relations)
Definition of FOOD GRAIN
Best Alternative Words for FOOD GRAIN
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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 |