GENUS SECALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Secale mean? 

• GENUS SECALE (noun)
  The noun GENUS SECALE has 1 sense:

1. cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye

  Familiarity information: GENUS SECALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SECALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Secale; Secale

Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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)