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A breakfast food prepared from grain; Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of grasses; Grass whose starchy grains are used as food.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Good breakfasts include porridge, wholewheat breakfast cereals - ones that are lower in sugar.
  • A cereal beverage
  • Personally, I've never understood the appeal of marshmallows in cereal if the cereal is any good at all.
  • We use them ground in cereal and spread on yoghurt.
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  • The mice formed a "circle" (a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from the center) around the "cereal" (any grain used for food).
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