Pennisetum glaucum vs cereal

cereal vs Pennisetum glaucum

Pennisetum glaucum and cereal both are nouns.

Pennisetum glaucum is not an adjective while cereal is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Pennisetum glaucum	Yes	No	No	No
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, cereal is a hypernym of Pennisetum glaucum; that is, cereal is a word with a broader meaning than Pennisetum glaucum:

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

Other hypernyms of Pennisetum glaucum include cereal grass.

Pennisetum glaucum (noun)	cereal (noun)
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	a breakfast food prepared from grain
	foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
	grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

Pennisetum glaucum (adjective)	cereal (adjective)
	made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between Pennisetum glaucum and cereal

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