Grain

What “Grain” means

Noun

1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
2. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3. A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
5. A linear texture of a material or surface.

Verb

1. To feed grain to.
2. To make granular; to form into grains.
3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
5. To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

Noun

1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
2. A tine, prong, or fork.
3. A tine, prong, or fork.
4. A tine, prong, or fork.
5. A tine, prong, or fork.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.

From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein (“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to English grove (“thicket”).

Business name ideas with “Grain”

Industries where “Grain” fits

We suggest this word for 7 business types and industries, including:

• Flooring Company
• Furniture Maker
• Woodworking Business
• Custom Architectural Woodwork and Millwork Manufacturing
• Flooring Contractors
• Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers
• Nonupholstered Wood Household Furniture Manufacturing