rye > define
noun
- The seed of the cereal grass.
- 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.
- synonyms: Secale cereale
- Whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt.
- synonyms: rye whiskey, rye whisky
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A disease in a hawk.
- (n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary