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Definition of Cereal grass
1. Noun. Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Specialized synonyms: Oat, Barley, Rice, Rice Grass, Ricegrass, Bulrush Millet, Cattail Millet, Pearl Millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum Glaucum, Rye, Secale Cereale, Millet, Grain, Wheat, Corn, Indian Corn, Maize, Zea Mays, Corn, Wild Rice, Zizania Aquatica
Derivative terms: Cereal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cereal Grass
Literary usage of Cereal grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"Marly and calcareous lands arc particularly fit for rearing this cereal grass.
It resists moderate spring-frosts. As much as 100 bushels of Cape-barley have ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Indian millet, African millet, a stout cereal grass commonly known as Sorghum
vulgäre, but now regarded as part of a multiform species, Andropogon Sorghum, ..."
3. Commercial Geography by Jacques Wardlaw Redway (1908)
"Rye is the seed of a cereal grass, ... Barley is the seed of several species of
cereal grass, mainly Hordeum distichum and ..."
4. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"Barley is the best cereal grass for late summer seeding, since the young plants
do not rust so readily as do other cereals. In the southern states fall-sown ..."
5. Advanced Agriculture by Henry J. Webb (1894)
"From its base near, but below, the surface of the ground, each shoot of a cereal
grass produces a set of feeding roots. These root fibres branch freely, ..."
6. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1850)
"To this day, in science all are called grasses; by way of distinction, though,
the grain is termed the cereal grass, being cultivated for its seed, ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants: Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1857)
"... when raised on good soil and under favorable circumstances, is said to yield
a larger quantity of seed to the acre than any other cereal grass known, ..."
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