Cereal vs. Flour — What's the Difference?

A cereal is any grass cultivated (grown) for the edible components of its grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran. The term may also refer to the resulting grain itself (specifically "cereal grain").

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods.

A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.

A powder obtained by grinding grain, typically wheat, and used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.

The grain of such a grass.

Sprinkle (something, especially a work surface or cooking utensil) with a thin layer of flour.

Any of several other plants or their edible seeds or fruit, such as buckwheat or certain species of amaranth.

Grind (grain) into flour.

A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.

A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.

Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.

Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, chickpeas, or bananas.

(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

A soft, fine powder.

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

To cover or coat with flour.

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

To make into flour.

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; - usually in the plural.

The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

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

Powder of other material.

Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Obsolete form of flower

A breakfast food prepared from grain

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it;

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

To sprinkle with flour.

Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

Cover with flour;

Convert grain into flour