grain
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
Noun 4 meanings
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
“Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)”
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
“Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)”
A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
“a grain of wheat”
The crops from which grain is harvested.
“The fields were planted with grain.”
Verb 4 meanings
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
Etymology
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
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GRAIN at a glance
GRAIN has 5 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + A 1 + I 1 + N 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,237 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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