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grain

/ɡɹeɪn/
noun

  1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

    "We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter."

  2. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

  3. A single seed of grass food crops.

    "a grain of wheat"

verb

  1. To feed grain to.

  2. To make granular; to form into grains.

  3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

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