- Cereal grass - Hardy cereal - A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum,
used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale,
and whisky.
- a plant cultivated as a source of syrup - Cereal grass - Forage crop - Old World cereal grass - A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species,
Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson
grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under
Indian). - A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine
juice; the Chinese sugar cane.