centeno

Definitions of centeno
  1. noun
    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
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    type of:
    cereal
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
  2. noun
    whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
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    type of:
    güisqui, whisky
    a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
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