Cereal vs. Oat

Cerealnoun

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

Cerealnoun

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

Cerealnoun

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

Cerealadjective

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

Cerealnoun

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

Cerealnoun

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

Cerealnoun

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Cerealnoun

a breakfast food prepared from grain

Cerealadjective

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

Cereal

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 ).

Oatnoun

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

Oatnoun

(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

Oatnoun

The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.

Oatnoun

A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

Oatnoun

A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; - commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

Oatnoun

A musical pipe made of oat straw.

Oatnoun

annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

Oatnoun

seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

Oatnoun

an Old World cereal plant with a loose, branched cluster of florets, cultivated in cool climates and widely used for animal feed.

Oatnoun

the grain yielded by the oat plant, used as food

Oatnoun

used in names of wild grasses related to the cultivated oat, e.g. wild oat.

Oatnoun

an oat stem used as a musical pipe by shepherds, especially in pastoral or bucolic poetry.

Oat

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed.