About The Word Rye
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What's The Definition Of Rye?
[n] distilled from rye or rye and malt
[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] the seed of the cereal grass Synonyms | Synonyms for Rye: rye whiskey | rye whisky | Secale cereale Related Terms | Find terms related to Rye: See Also | caryopsis | cereal | cereal grass | genus Secale | grain | rye | Secale | whiskey | whisky Rye In Webster's Dictionary \Rye\, n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw.
r[*a]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken,
roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. 'o`ryza
rice. Cf. {Rice}.]
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.
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