cereal vs Pennisetum glaucum

Pennisetum glaucum vs cereal

cereal and Pennisetum glaucum both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Pennisetum glaucum is a hyponym of cereal; that is, Pennisetum glaucum 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 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

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

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

Difference between cereal and Pennisetum glaucum

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