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RYE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

Synonyms:

rye; rye whiskey; rye whisky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rye" is a kind of...):

whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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:

rye; Secale cereale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rye" is a kind of...):

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Meronyms (parts of "rye"):

rye (the seed of the cereal grass)

Holonyms ("rye" is a member of...):

genus Secale; Secale (cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The seed of the cereal grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rye" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("rye" is a part of...):

rye; Secale cereale (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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