Grain

General term for the fruit of cereals (grasses cultivated for food);


A small, rounded body (e.g. about the shape and size of a grain of rice).


A unit of weight equal to 64.8 mg.


A dry, 1-seeded fruit in which the fruit wall is fused to the seed (grasses).


A small rounded body about the shape and size of a rice grain, more generally used for the fruit of a cereal.


In botany, the fruit of the grass family; a small, dry, one-seeded fruit that does not open at maturity and in which the seed coat is fused with the pericarp.


A very small piece of something hard such as salt.


A measure of weight equal to 0.0648 grams.


Behold, a fleeting particle, minute in size and hardness, composed of any substance conceivable! Alternatively, consider a weight unit, so small and obscure, it measures a mere 1/60 of a dram or 1/437.5 ounce.


 


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