Grain And Cereal
Cereal
(Countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
Grain
(Uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
‘We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.’
Cereal
(Uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
Grain
(Uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
Cereal
(Uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
‘Would you like some cereal?’; ‘Which cereal would you like for breakfast?’
Grain
(Countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
‘A grain of wheat’; ‘grains of oat’;