核心畫面
You can picture a wide field of wheat, rice, corn or — plants grown not for their leaves or fruit but for the hard little seeds at the top, the grain. Everything the word covers sits on that one picture: the plant in the field, and the grain from it once it has been turned into something you eat.
可以想成一整片麥田或稻田：這些作物種下去不是為了葉子或果實，而是為了穗上那些硬硬的小顆粒——穀粒。這個字的兩個用法都…更多收起
可以想成一整片麥田或稻田：這些作物種下去不是為了葉子或果實，而是為了穗上那些硬硬的小顆粒——穀粒。這個字的兩個用法都掛在這張圖上：田裡的那株作物，以及那些穀粒被加工成人吃的東西之後的樣子。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cerealname
- 1
A village in Alberta, Canada.
Cerealadj
- 1
Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.
- By means of statues and coinage depicting his wife Livia in the guise of Ceres and himself in the Cereal crown of the Arval Brethren, Augustus implied that his own godlike charisma helped keep the plebeians fed […]
cerealnoun/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
- 1
A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- 2
The grains of such a grass.
- 3
Breakfast cereal.
- Would you like some cereal?
- Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
cerealadj/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
- 1
Of or relating to cereal.
- Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.
- Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。