RYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rye mean? 

• RYE (noun)
  The noun RYE has 3 senses:

1. the seed of the cereal grass

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

3. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

  Familiarity information: RYE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RYE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rye; Secale cereale

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:

Whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

rye; rye whiskey; rye whisky

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

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

 Context examples 

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley.

(Celiac Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A digestive disease that is caused by an immune response to a protein called gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats.

(Celiac Disease, NCI Dictionary)

A naturally occurring dicarboxylic acid produced by Malassezia furfur and found in whole grain cereals, rye, barley and animal products.

(Azelaic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A human nutrition study reaffirms the health benefits of substituting refined-grain products like white bread with whole-grain foods like whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, barley, rye, and brown or wild rice.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)