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cereal vs rice

rice vs cereal

cereal and rice both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but rice is not an adjective.

cereal is not a verb while rice is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cereal Yes Yes No No
rice Yes No Yes No
As nouns, rice is a hyponym of cereal; that is, rice is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cereal:
  • cereal: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  • rice: grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
Other hyponyms of cereal include corn, edible corn, grist, groats, millet, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, wheat, wheat berry, oat, Indian rice, wild rice, malt.
As nouns, rice is a hyponym of cereal; that is, rice 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
  • rice: annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
Other hyponyms of cereal include oat, barley, 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) rice (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
cereal (adjective) rice (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
cereal (verb) rice (verb)
sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
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