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cereal vs barley

barley vs cereal

cereal and barley both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but barley is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cereal Yes Yes No No
barley Yes No No No
As nouns, barley is a hyponym of cereal; that is, barley is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cereal:
  • cereal: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  • barley: a grain of barley
Other hyponyms of cereal include corn, edible corn, grist, groats, millet, barleycorn, buckwheat, wheat, wheat berry, oat, rice, Indian rice, wild rice, malt.
As nouns, barley is a hyponym of cereal; that is, barley 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
  • barley: cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
Other hyponyms of cereal include oat, rice, rice grass, ricegrass, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, rye, Secale cereale, millet, grain, wheat, corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays, corn, wild rice, Zizania aquatica.
cereal (noun) barley (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain a grain of barley
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
cereal (adjective) barley (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
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