n. 25B6; noun
the local farmers grow grain : CEREAL, cereal crops. See list at cereal .
a grain of corn : KERNEL, seed, grist.
grains of sand : GRANULE, particle, speck, mote, mite; bit, piece; scrap, crumb, fragment, morsel.
a grain of truth : TRACE, hint, tinge, suggestion, shadow; bit, soupçon; scintilla, ounce, iota, jot, whit, scrap, shred; informal smidgen, smidge, tad.
the grain of the timber : TEXTURE, surface, finish; weave, pattern.