cereal vs wheat berry

wheat berry vs cereal

cereal and wheat berry both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but wheat berry is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No
wheat berry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wheat berry is a hyponym of cereal; that is, wheat berry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cereal:

cereal: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
wheat berry: grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

Other hyponyms of cereal include corn, edible corn, grist, groats, millet, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, wheat, oat, rice, Indian rice, wild rice, malt.

cereal (noun)	wheat berry (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain	grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses	a grain of wheat
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

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

Difference between cereal and wheat berry

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