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SECALE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye

Synonyms:

genus Secale; Secale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Secale"):

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)

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

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

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