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Search   Web Kids.Net.Au Dictionary   Sponsors	Dictionary > Definition: grain Definition of grain the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain" foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses a small hard particle; "a grain of sand" dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat become granular form into grains paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" Similar Words: food grain, cereal, caryopsis, metric grain, granulate, ingrain Hyponyms: wood grain, woodgrain, graining, woodgraining, corn, edible corn, grist, groats, millet, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, wheat, wheat berry, oat, rice, wild rice, Indian rice, malt, granule, amaranth, kernel, rye Part Meronyms: dram, pennyweight, scruple, decigram, dg Derivational Morphology: granulate, granulation, graining, woodgraining Find words starting with:     A B C     D E F     G H I     J K L     M N O     P Q R     S T U     V W X     Y Z

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