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grain noun

  /ɡɹeɪn/
  • (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
  • (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
jyvä
  • (countable) A single particle of a substance.
jyvä, jyvänen
  • (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
vilja, jyvät
  • (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
vilja
  • (countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
graani
  • (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
kide
  • 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.
kokenilli
  • Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
luonne
  • The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
martiopuoli
  • (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
mäski
  • (photography, 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.
rakeisuus
  • (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
syy

grain verb

  /ɡɹeɪn/
  • To yield fruit.
kantaa hedelmää
  • To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
ootrata
  • (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
ootrata, rakeutua, ruokkia viljalla
  • (tanning) To soften leather.
pehmittää
  • (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
poistaa karva
  • (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
rakeistaa

graining noun

  • The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
ootraus

grained adjective

  • Having a grain or grains.
jyväinen
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