cereal vs Pennisetum Americanum

Pennisetum Americanum vs cereal

cereal and Pennisetum Americanum both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but Pennisetum Americanum is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Pennisetum Americanum is a hyponym of cereal; that is, Pennisetum Americanum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cereal:

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

Other hyponyms of cereal include oat, barley, rice, rice grass, ricegrass, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum, rye, Secale cereale, millet, grain, wheat, corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays, corn, wild rice, Zizania aquatica.

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

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

Difference between cereal and Pennisetum Americanum

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