dry cereal
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- noun
- /draɪ ˈsɪrəl/
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cereal seco
- Brons wanted a dry cereal.
- eat dry cereal
- bowl of dry cereal
Examples
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Here I am in the prime of my life, and my boyfriend's idea of a romantic evening is watching the Disney Channel while you eat dry cereal.
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A handful of dry cereal or a slice of whole wheat toast.
Blog text (12) -
All we got is dry cereal for you.
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Charlie and Rose sit at the table, each eating a bowl of dry cereal.
Fiction book (1993) -
You could also add granola, pretzels, or dry cereal.
Blog text (18) -
I hate dry cereal except for Fruit Loops, and when my kids aren't looking, I swipe a few pieces from their bowls.
Blog text (32) -
Are there so many of us dumb enough to not keep a supply of canned goods, crackers, peanut butter, jelly, and dry cereal?
Blog text (4) -
Waiting and wondering about the future, as he crunched the dry cereal, his rear teeth grinding and clacking on it like the jawgnashers in hell's lowest reaches.
Fiction book (2001) -
Charlie and Rose sit at the table, each eating a bowl of dry cereal.
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He opens the box and starts eating handfuls of dry cereal as he walks to the front desk.
Synonyms
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A food made from grains that you eat with milk for breakfast
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A breakfast food eaten without heating, usually served with milk
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'dry' (not wet / not cooked) modifies 'cereal' (breakfast grain food), so a learner who knows both words will understand it refers to cereal eaten without cooking or added liquid. This follows a regular adjective+noun pattern common across languages, making the phrase immediately predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Dry cereal comes from the simple picture of crunchy breakfast grains that are already dry and ready to eat from the box, not hot or cooked. That's why dry and cereal together mean 'a breakfast cereal you can eat without heating'.