grain

/ɡɹeɪn/

#6,037 of the most-used English words

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"
4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
   "The fields were planted with grain."

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.
4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

noun

1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
2. A tine, prong, or fork.
3. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.