cereal grass

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

grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

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

barley - cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain

rice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

rice grass, ricegrass - any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum - tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

Secale cereale, rye - hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

grain - a cereal grass; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas"

wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

corn - (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

wild rice, Zizania aquatica - perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food

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Corn, which began as a weedy grass growing in Mexico, possesses a strange trait known as a "jumping gene." Over time it transformed itself into a cereal grass that we've come to know as maize, and then as corn.

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An old school friend of mine was head of medicinal chemistry at a cancer research company - do I believe he went into work each day dreaming up expensive cures while knowing all the time that all he needed to do was to squeeze the juice out of some cereal grass? No, I do not.

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Ahmed Mohamoud, who works for the charity Action Aid, said: "This would all be maize and sorghum, a cereal grass, and cash crops such as water melon and onions.

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Sorghum (sorghum bicolor) which is an old cereal grass is an important component of poultry feed (Black, 2005).

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The latest weapon in his armoury of natural health is wheatgrass, a cereal grass similar to barley and alfalfa which he grows himself, juices and swigs a shot of every morning.

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Amaranth is not a grass, but a four- to six-foot-tall, broad-leafed plant that produces edible (when cooked) greens, plus highly ornamental plumes, which develop legions of tiny round seeds more nutritious than any cereal grass. Good for people who are allergic to wheat or corn.