cereal vs bulrush millet

bulrush millet vs cereal

cereal and bulrush millet both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but bulrush millet is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No
bulrush millet	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bulrush millet is a hyponym of cereal; that is, bulrush millet 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
bulrush millet: 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, 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)	bulrush millet (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)	bulrush millet (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between cereal and bulrush millet

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