LekhoriLekhoriThe harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
To feed grain to.
He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
To make granular; to form into grains.
A village in Isle of Grain parish, Isle of Grain, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).
A surname.
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
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To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.