breadstuff — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).

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   Examples

   [Isaac] Friedlander became the Michael Milken of a new market: California's emerging export trade in breadstuffs.

2. Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.

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Noun

1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

   Synonyms

   breadstaff of life

   Broader terms

   baked goodsstarches

2. flour or meal or grain used in baking bread

   Broader terms

   foodstufffood product