Groats vs. Cereal — What's the Difference?

Plural of groat

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").

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

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

The hulled and crushed grain of various cereals

The grain of such a grass.

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

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

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

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

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

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

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

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

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