cornflake

A toasted flake of maize used as breakfast cereal.

Adjective

  1. Fake.

Origin

From corn + flake.

Forms

more cornflake most cornflake

Noun

  1. A toasted flake of maize used as breakfast cereal.
    • But the kitchen regained its footing with a juicy pork chop, from a farm in Pennsylvania, with a cornflake crust; catfish (in a departure, from Louisiana) pan roasted, with black-bean-studded rice; and a chicken breast...

Forms

cornflakes