Thesaurus: rye

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1. n. A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
2. n. A disease in a hawk.
3. n. the seed of the cereal grass
4. 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
5. n. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
6. 1. (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. 2. A disease in a hawk. Ainsworth. Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel. -- Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.
7. A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale),closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes alarge portion of the breadstuff used by man.
8. n:100 n. the seed of the cereal grass 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 n. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt