Cereal

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.

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