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# cereal

«cereal» in Mova's school dictionary: **A breakfast food made from grains, such as cornflakes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cereal, cereals; uncountable for the breakfast food)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A breakfast food made from grains, such as cornflakes, oats or puffed rice, often eaten with milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#m1)

2) A cereal is a grass plant whose seeds (grains) we eat, like wheat, rice, maize (corn), oats, barley and rye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and food lessons, cereals are important crops: bread, pasta, rice and porridge come from them, and they give carbohydrates for energy and fibre. Wholegrain cereals are healthier than sugary ones; check labels. In everyday life, many children eat cereal for breakfast. In maths, cereal boxes appear in nets, volume and weight problems: a 500 g box with 30 g servings has 500 ÷ 30 ≈ 16 servings. Phrases: "a bowl of cereal", "breakfast cereal", "cereal box", "cereal crops", "wholegrain cereal".

### examples

- I have a bowl of cereal for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x1)
- Wheat and rice are cereals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x2)
- This cereal is very sugary, so I only have it on Saturdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x3)
- The farmer grows cereal crops like barley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x4)
- We made a net of a cereal box in maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x5)
- Pour the milk on your cereal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x6)
- Oats are a cereal used to make porridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x7)
- The cereal box says 30 g is one serving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/#x8)

### note

Homophone trap: "cereal" (food) sounds the same as "serial" (in a series, like a serial number or a story in parts). The word comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain. Usually uncountable for breakfast food: "some cereal", "a bowl of cereal".

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/3/)
- [Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/0/)
- [After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/0/)
- [Many breakfast cereals contain a lot of added sugar, which you can see on the label.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/10/)
- [Sugary cereals with cartoon characters are put on low shelves on purpose, at children's eye level.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cereal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cereal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.