bran flake
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- noun
- /bræn fleɪk/
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- She poured milk over her bran flakes and added some honey for sweetness.
- a breakfast of bran flakes
I like cereal, like bran flakes with raisins in it.
- I like cereal, like bran flakes with raisins in it.
Examples
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I like cereal, like bran flakes with raisins in it.
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Cardboard boxes stood in corners, boxes full of bran flakes, beans, and eggs.
Fiction book (1991) -
She watched him bring his bran flakes over to the table along with the handful of vitamins he swallowed daily.
Fiction book (1996) -
She took a bowl of rice crisps (the bran flakes already gone, dammit) and surveyed the commons while Max ran her card through the register.
Fiction book (1995) -
For breakfast, I usually enjoy a bowl of bran flakes with fresh fruit.
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After the workout, he ate a quick meal of yogurt and bran flakes for energy.
Synonyms
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A food made from grains that you eat with milk for breakfast
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A breakfast food like flakes or puffs you eat with milk without cooking
A small flat crunchy piece of wheat eaten for breakfast
How Crunchy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'bran' (outer layers of grain) + 'flake' (a small thin fragment), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to thin cereal pieces made from bran. This is a literal, product‑of‑X construction that is cross‑linguistically common and follows regular English noun–noun composition patterns, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Bran flake is a name for a thin, crisp flake made from whole wheat that still includes the brown outer part called bran. That's why the name refers to a crunchy breakfast cereal piece that is brown and high in 'fiber'.