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cereal

Grass cultivated for its edible grain

Entitygroup or class of agricultural productsQ12117

Also known as cereals · cereal crop

Instance of: group or class of agricultural products
Subclass of: cereals and pseudocereals
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A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize. Edible grains from other plant families, such as amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa, are pseudocereals. Most cereals are annuals, producing one crop from each planting, though rice is sometimes grown as a perennial. Winter varieties are hardy enough to be planted in the autumn, becoming dormant in the winter, and harvested in spring or early summer; spring varieties are planted in spring and harvested in late summer. The term cereal is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of grain crops and fertility, Ceres.

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Different from: pseudocereal
cereal crop
Water footprint: 1,644 cubic metre per ton
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0.51 litre per kilocalorie
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1,214 cubic metre per ton valid in place: Europe
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3,388 cubic metre per ton valid in place: Africa
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1,774 cubic metre per ton valid in place: Asia
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1,294 cubic metre per ton valid in place: Americas
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1,969 cubic metre per ton valid in place: Insular Oceania
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Members / parts: cereal grain

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