Grass vs. Cereal — What's the Difference?

A member of the grass family.

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").

The members of the grass family considered as a group.

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

Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.

The grain of such a grass.

Ground, as on a lawn, that is covered with grass or similar plants.

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

Grazing land; pasture.

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

(Slang) Marijuana.

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

(Electronics) Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.

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

Chiefly British Slang An informer.

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

To cover with grass.

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

To grow grass on.

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

To feed (livestock) with grass.

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

To become covered with grass.

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

To graze.

Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

A breakfast food prepared from grain

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

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

(uncountable) A lawn.

Marijuana.

An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

That which is transitory.

Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".

(mining) The surface of a mine.

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.

(transitive) To feed with grass.

(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

The season of fresh grass; spring.

Metaphorically used for what is transitory.

Marijuana.

To cover with grass or with turf.

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.

To produce grass.

Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

Animal food for browsing or grazing

Street names for marijuana

Shoot down, of birds

Cover with grass;

Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

Cover with grass

Feed with grass

Give away information about somebody;