rye

Noun
  1. The seed of the cereal grass (synset 112177696)
    hypernym: caryopsis, grain - dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
    part meronym: 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
  2. 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 (synset 112154542)
    hypernym: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
    member meronym: genus secale, secale - cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye
    part holonym: rye - the seed of the cereal grass
    synonym: secale cereale
  3. Whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt (synset 107923669)
    hypernym: whiskey, whisky - a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
    synonym: rye whiskey, rye whisky

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