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rye

DEFINITIONS OF: rye

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n hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

Synonyms:
Secale cereale
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

n the seed of the cereal grass

Type of:
caryopsis, grain
dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

n whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

Synonyms:
rye whiskey, rye whisky
Type of:
whiskey, whisky
a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
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