What does "breadstuff" mean?

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).

What is a synonym for "breadstuff"?

Common synonyms include: bread, bread, staff of life.

Breadstuff

//bɹɛdˌstʌf// noun

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Definitions

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). countable, uncountable
"[Isaac] Friedlander became the Michael Milken of a new market: California's emerging export trade in breadstuffs."
2
flour or meal or grain used in baking bread wordnet
3
Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort. countable, uncountable
4
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

bread bread staff of life

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

Etymology

From bread + stuff.

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