Word Meanings - CEREAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds , or to their seeds or grain.
Related words: (words related to CEREAL)
- GRAINED
Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, - EDIBLENESS
Suitableness for being eaten. - CULTIVATABLE
Cultivable. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - GRAINING
The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting - GRAINY
Resembling grains; granular. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - GRAINER
1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - GRAINS
1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1. - GRAINFIELD
A field where grain is grown. - SEEDSMAN
1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds. - EDIBLE
Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. - GRAIN
See GROAN - CULTIVATE
cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time - CULTIVATOR
1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. 2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with - CULTIVATION
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - INCREDIBLENESS
Incredibility. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - MIGRAINE
See A - FELT GRAIN
, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight. - ROUGH-GRAINED
Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque. - UNCREDIBLE
Incredible. Bacon. - OBEDIBLE
Obedient. Bp. Hall. - ENGRAIN
1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott. 3. To