breakfast cereal vs meal

breakfast cereal

noun
  • A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar. 

meal

noun
  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. 

  • Food served or eaten as a repast. 

  • A speck or spot. 

  • A part; a fragment; a portion. 

  • Coordinate term: flour 

  • A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. 

  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). 

verb
  • To defile or taint. 

How often have the words breakfast cereal and meal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )