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Noun grain has 7 senses
- grain - a small hard particle; "a grain of sand"
--1 is a kind of atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck
--1 has particulars: granule
- grain, food grain, cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
--2 is a kind of foodstuff, food product
--2 has particulars:
- grain, metric grain - used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
--3 is a kind of metric weight unit, weight unit
--3 is a part of decigram, dg
--3 has parts: milligram, mg
- grain - 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
--4 is a kind of troy unit; apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight
--4 is a part of pennyweight; scruple
- grain - 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
--5 is a kind of avoirdupois unit
--5 is a part of dram
- grain, caryopsis - dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
--6 is a kind of seed
--6 has particulars: amaranth; barleycorn; wheat berry; kernel; rye
- 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"
--7 is a kind of texture
--7 has particulars: wood grain, woodgrain; graining, woodgraining
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