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cereal

cereal

noun seh-reh-AHL Rare

Origin: From Latin cerealis, relating to Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain.

Also means

grain

Usage Note

Cereal covers both breakfast cereal (cereales del desayuno) and agricultural grain crops such as wheat, oats, or corn. When used in the plural cereales, it commonly refers to breakfast cereals or grain crops collectively. The stress falls on the final syllable, unlike the English stress on the first.

Examples

"Desayuno cereales con leche cada mañana."

Natural Translation

I have cereal with milk every morning.

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