grain
- grain
1. Cereal plants, such as
corn, wheat, or rye, or a
seed of one of them.
2. A minute, hard
particle of any
substance, as of
sand.
3. (
gr) A
unit of
weight, 160
dram (apoth. or troy), 1437.5
avoirdupois ounce, 1480 troy
ounce, 15760 troy
pound, 17000
avoirdupois pound; the
equivalent of 0.064799 g..
4. A macroscopically visible cluster of organisms living in
tissue of patients with
actinomycosis or
mycetoma. [L. granum]
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1 a) a seed or fruit of a cereal grass
b) the seeds or fruits of various food plants including the cereal grasses and in commercial and statutory usage other plants (as the soybean)
c) plants producing grain
2) a small hard particle or crystal (as of sand or salt)
3) a unit of avoirdupois, Troy, and apothecaries' weight equal to 0.0648 gram or 0.002286 avoirdupois ounce or 0.002083 Troy ounce
abbr. gr
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n.
a unit of mass equal to 1/7000 of a pound (
avoirdupois). 1 grain = 0.0648 gram.
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(grān) [L. granum] 1. a seed, especially of a cereal plant. 2. the smallest unit of weight in the apothecaries' and avoirdupois systems, equivalent to 64.8 mg; in the apothecaries' system there are 20 grains to the scruple, with 480 grains in 1 ounce; in the avoirdupos system, there are 27.34 grains to the dram, with 437.5 grains in 1 ounce. Abbreviated gr. 3. an individual crystal of a metal or other crystalline structure.
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