Cereal vs Legume - What's the difference?
cereal | legume |
(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
(countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.
The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
As a proper noun cereal
is a village in alberta, canada.As a noun legume is
vegetable (the food).cereal
English
(wikipedia cereal)Noun
(en-noun)- Would you like some cereal ?
- Which cereal would you like for breakfast?