Secale cereale vs cereal

cereal vs Secale cereale

Secale cereale and cereal both are nouns.

Secale cereale is not an adjective while cereal is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Secale cereale	Yes	No	No	No
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

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

Other hypernyms of Secale cereale include cereal grass.

Secale cereale (noun)	cereal (noun)
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	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

Secale cereale (adjective)	cereal (adjective)
	made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between Secale cereale and cereal

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