widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
a breakfast food prepared from grain
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
