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KELLOGG
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• KELLOGG (noun)
The noun KELLOGG has 1 sense:
1. United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
Familiarity information: KELLOGG used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Kellogg; W. K. Kellogg; Will Keith Kellog
Instance hypernyms:
food manufacturer (a person who manufactures food products)
Context examples
Then there were a number of grammars, such as Metcalf’s, and Reed and Kellogg’s; and I smiled as I saw a copy of The Dean’s English.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
John Schade, a program officer in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, which funds the Kellogg Biological Station site, said the results may transform the understanding of how carbon and climate interact in plant and soil microbial communities.
(Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon, National Science Foundation)
The study was conducted at the NSF Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research site, one of 28 NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from grasslands to forests, coral reefs to the open sea.
(Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon, National Science Foundation)
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