 rye |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (botany) 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 | |
| Related terms: | cereal Secale | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (botany) the seed of the cereal grass | |
| Related terms: | grain | |
| 3. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8246 | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (food) distilled from rye or rye and malt | |
| Synonyms: | rye_whisky rye_whiskey | |
| Related terms: | whiskey | |
| Similar spelling: |
rya r |
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