The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRAIN
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More clues leading to the result GRAIN
- Farm crop may be good with wet weather
- Crop profit about right
- Trace female family member holding one
- Scrap ending in rioting cats and dogs?
- God ensnared a little bit
- Good to have wet weather? It may stop this being harvested
- Texture of wood, small quantity
- Particle in which iodine’s relatively absorbed?
- Rex in profit? A very small amount
- Smallest possible quantity of cereal
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What does GRAIN mean?
GRAIN noun- The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- A single seed of grass food crops.
- The crops from which grain is harvested.
- A linear texture of a material or surface.
- A single particle of a substance.
- A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
- A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- (videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- To feed grain to.
- To make granular; to form into grains.
- To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- A tine, prong, or fork.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.