rice vs cereal grass

cereal grass vs rice

rice and cereal grass both are nouns.

rice is a verb but cereal grass is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rice	Yes	No	Yes	No
cereal grass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cereal grass is a hypernym of rice; that is, cereal grass is a word with a broader meaning than rice:

rice: annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
cereal grass: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

Other hypernyms of rice include cereal.

rice (noun)	cereal grass (noun)
grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished	grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

rice (verb)	cereal grass (verb)
sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

Difference between rice and cereal grass

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