Cereal Flake

Cereal

A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize. Edible grains from other plant families, such as amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa, are pseudocereals. Most cereals are annuals, producing one crop from each planting, though rice is sometimes grown as a perennial. Winter varieties are hardy enough to be planted in the autumn, becoming dormant in the winter, and harvested in spring or early summer; spring varieties are planted in spring and harvested in late summer. The term cereal is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of grain crops and fertility, Ceres.

cereal

Noun

1. A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. The grains of such a grass.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to cereal.

flake

Noun

1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
2. A scale of a fish or similar animal

Verb

1. To break or chip off in a flake.
2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.