cereal vs Zea mays

Zea mays vs cereal

cereal and Zea mays both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but Zea mays is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No
Zea mays	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Zea mays is a hyponym of cereal; that is, Zea mays 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
Zea mays: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

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

cereal (noun)	Zea mays (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain	tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
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)	Zea mays (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between cereal and Zea mays

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