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Grain

/ɡɹeɪn/

The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

📖 Definitions of "Grain"

noun
  1. 1

    The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

    "We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter."

  2. 2

    Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

  3. 3

    A single seed of grass food crops.

    "a grain of wheat"

  4. 4

    The crops from which grain is harvested.

    "The fields were planted with grain."

verb
  1. 1

    To feed grain to.

  2. 2

    To make granular; to form into grains.

  3. 3

    To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

  4. 4

    To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

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