cereal vs Secale cereale

Secale cereale vs cereal

cereal and Secale cereale both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Secale cereale is a hyponym of cereal; that is, Secale cereale 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
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

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

cereal (noun)	Secale cereale (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain	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
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)	Secale cereale (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between cereal and Secale cereale

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