cereal vs cattail millet

cattail millet vs cereal

cereal and cattail millet both are nouns.

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

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

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

Difference between cereal and cattail millet

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