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# cereal

noun (cereal, cereals; uncountable for the breakfast food)

«cereal» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A breakfast food made from grains, such as cornflakes, oats or puffed rice, often eaten with milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#m1)
2. A cereal is a grass plant whose seeds (grains) we eat, like wheat, rice, maize (corn), oats, barley and rye. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and food lessons, cereals are important crops: bread, pasta, rice and porridge come from them, and they give carbohydrates for energy and fibre. Wholegrain cereals are healthier than sugary ones; check labels. In everyday life, many children eat cereal for breakfast. In maths, cereal boxes appear in nets, volume and weight problems: a 500 g box with 30 g servings has 500 ÷ 30 ≈ 16 servings. Phrases: "a bowl of cereal", "breakfast cereal", "cereal box", "cereal crops", "wholegrain cereal".

### Examples

- I have a bowl of cereal for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x1)
- Wheat and rice are cereals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x2)
- This cereal is very sugary, so I only have it on Saturdays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x3)
- The farmer grows cereal crops like barley. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x4)
- We made a net of a cereal box in maths. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x5)
- Pour the milk on your cereal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x6)
- Oats are a cereal used to make porridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x7)
- The cereal box says 30 g is one serving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x8)

### Note

Homophone trap: "cereal" (food) sounds the same as "serial" (in a series, like a serial number or a story in parts). The word comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain. Usually uncountable for breakfast food: "some cereal", "a bowl of cereal".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cereal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cereal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cereal.html) on Mova free.