cereal vs maize

maize vs cereal

cereal and maize both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but maize is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No
maize	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maize is a hyponym of cereal; that is, maize 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
maize: 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, Zea mays, corn, wild rice, Zizania aquatica.

cereal (noun)	maize (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain	a strong yellow color
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses	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
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

cereal (adjective)	maize (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between cereal and maize

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