noun
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A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
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The grains of such a grass.
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Breakfast cereal.
example
Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
Examples of cereals in a Sentence
The cereals are relatively unimportant.
The growth of cereals is the largest department of agriculture followed.
The elevation of a large part of the department gives it a temperate climate and permits the cultivation of cereals and other products of the temperate zone.
But generally in from 18 to 33 out of the 72 governments in European Russia (including Caucasia) and Poland the yield of cereals is not sufficient for the wants of the people.
Malt, tinware, flour and grist-mill products, boilers, stoves and ranges, optical supplies, wall-paper, cereals, canned goods, cutlery, tin cans and wagons are manufactured, and there are also extensive nurseries.
The other cereals, millet and panico sorgo (Panicum italicum), have lost much of their importance in consequence of the introduction of maize and rice.
Next to cereals and the vine the most important object of cultivation is the olive.
The chief diminution has taken place in the south in regard to oranges and lemons, cereals and (for some provinces) vines.
The gradual abolition of the grist tax on minor cereals diminished the surplus in 1882 to 236,000, and in 1883 to r1o,ooo, while the total repeal of the grist tax on wheat, which took effect on the 1st of January 1884, coincided with the opening of a new and disastrous period of deficit.
Agriculture is still in a primitive condition; notwithstanding the fertility of the arable land the supply of cereals is far below the requirements of the population.
It stands at the head of the effective navigation on the Rhine, and is not only the largest port on the upper course of that stream, but is the principal emporium for south Germany for such commodities as cereals, coal, petroleum, timber, sugar and tobacco, with a large trade in hops, wine and other south German produce.
Gyula-Fellavar carries on an active trade in cereals, wine and cattle.
From Cartagena the principal exports are metallic ores, esparto grass, wine, cereals and fruit.
The exports of Aube consist of timber, cereals, agricultural products, hosiery, wine, dressed pork, &c.; its imports include wool and raw cotton, coal and machinery, especially looms. The department is served by the Eastern railway, of which the main line to Belfort crosses it.
The so-called eelworms (Nematodes) may do immense damage on roots and in the grains of cereals, and every one knows how predatory slugs and snails are.
For this reason these crops are known as " restorative," cereals the produce of which is sold off the farm being classed as " exhaustive."
But much less potash than phosphoric acid is exported in the cereal grains, much more being retained in the straw, whilst the other products of the rotation - the root and leguminous crops - which are also supposed to be retained on the farm, contain very much more potash than the cereals, and comparatively little of it is exported in meat and milk.
Agriculture is highly developed; cereals, principally wheat and oats, and beetroot are the chief crops; potatoes, flax, hemp, rape and hops are also grown.
The cereals of Europe are a source of increasing wealth to the nation, and alfalfa promises new prosperity for pastoral industries.
The total export of cereals in 1898 was valued at £70,800.
The soil when reclaimed is well adapted for forage crops, cereals, vegetables and deciduous fruits.
Among the exports may be noticed minerals, wines and spirits, tobacco, hides, live animals; and among the imports, groceries, cotton and cereals.
Cereals occupy about one-third of the cultivated area.
Amongst imports raw materials (wool, cotton and silk, coal, oilseeds, timber, &c.) hold the first place, articles of food (cereals, wine, coffee, &c.) and manufactured goods (especially machinery) ranking next.
Turkestan is a good wheat-producing country, cereals were actually imported from Russia and Siberia and cotton exported in exchange.
On the fertile low grounds along the margins of rivers or in clearings of forests, agricultural communities naturally take their rise, dwelling in villages and cultivating the wild grains, which by careful nurture and selection have been turned into rich cereals.
It has some large breweries and manufactories of chemicals, and does a considerable trade in cereals, leather, timber and wine.
It has an active trade in cereals and cattle.
Albury is the centre of a sheeprearing and agricultural district; grapes, cereals and tobacco are largely grown, and the wine produced here is held in high repute throughout Australia.
The trade in fruit, cereals, oil and wine is considerable.
Trade is carried on in flax, cloth, cereals, oilseeds, &c.
Taking the whole of European Russia and Poland, almost exactly two-thirds of the total area is sown every year with cereals.
Cereals are imported from the Black Sea and Danube ports, ready-made clothing from Austria and Germany, articles of luxury from Austria and France, and cotton textiles from England.
The soil of the valleys is highly fertile, and produces cereals in the higher 1 So Isa.
In the meantime the crops of cereals increased little, and stock raising generally decreased.
North of the tropic the winter cold is sufficient to admit of the cultivation of almost all the cereals and vegetables of Europe, wheat being sown in November and reaped early in April.
In this same region the summer heat and rain provide a thoroughly tropical climate, in which rice and other tropical cereals are freely raised, being as a rule sown early in July and reaped in September or October.
The other cereals may be seen occasionally, where artificial irrigation is practised, in all stages of progress at all seasons of the year, though the operations of agriculture are, as a general rule, limited to the rainy months, when alone is the requisite supply of water commonly forthcoming.
The principal imports are butter, woollens, timber, cereals, eggs, glass, cottons, preserved meat, wool, sugar and bacon.
It produces Indian corn and other cereals and potatoes in the colder regions, and tropical fruits, sweet potatoes and mandioca (Jatropha manihot, L.) in the low tropical valleys.
Farther south, heavy crops of wheat, turnips and other cereals and green crops are not uncommon, while barley is cultivated about Repton and Gresley, and also in the east of the county, in order to supply the Burton breweries.
But beyond the fact that both Babylonia and Assyria were large producers of cereals, little is known of their husbandry.
Greece being a mountainous land was favourable to the culture of the vine rather than to that of cereals.
In addition to the cereals, beans, peas and vetches were grown to some extent.
Sheep were small and their fleeces light, nevertheless, owing to the meagreness of the yields of cereals' and the demand for wool for export, sheep-farming was looked to, as early as the 12th century, as the chief source of profit.
If the land taken from wheat had been cropped with one or both of the other cereals, the aggregate area would have remained about the same.
To the decline in prices of home-grown cereals the decrease in area is largely attributable.
Of corn crops other than cereals, beans and peas are both less cultivated than formerly.
The figures for cereals are important, as they indicate that it is the farmers of England who are the chief sufferers through the diminishing prices of corn; and particularly is this true of East Anglia, where corn-growing is more largely pursued than in anyother part of the Table Vi.
On the other hand, the season of 1898 was exceptionally favourable to cereals and to hay.