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What would you call the thing on this image?

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I am looking for the general term or hypernym, I know that it has more types:

  • wheat
  • barley
  • oat
  • rye

My suggestions: trigo de maiz, plantas de cereales

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    The plant on the image is wheat that is translated as "trigo". It's not really clear what you are asking for. If you want a word that could describe all the different plants you mentioned in english in the question, given that they are all cereals, I'd use "cereal" or "grano". "Cereal" is more correct in my opinion, since things like garbanzo and beans are called "grano" too, but are not cereals. That's all in Spain.
    – Nox
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 18:20
  • I think in fact it is barley, but I agree cereales is the way to go.
    – mdewey
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 19:59

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It is not necessary to say plantas de cereales. Cereales alone is enough. For example, when you say "un campo de cereales" you're implicitly understood to mean "un campo de plantas de cereales".

You can also say:

  • granos

  • gramíneas

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