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SECALE CEREALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secale cereale mean? 

SECALE CEREALE (noun)
  The noun SECALE CEREALE has 1 sense:

1. 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 improvementplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SECALE CEREALE (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("Secale cereale" 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 "Secale cereale"):

rye (the seed of the cereal grass)

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

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


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