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n. A cereal grass (Secale cereale) widely cultivated for its grain.

n. The grain of this plant, used in making flour and whiskey and for livestock feed.

n. Whiskey made from the grains of this plant.

n. A Gypsy man.

n. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)

n. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.

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.

n. A disease in a hawk.

n. The cereal plant Sccale cerealc, or its seeds.

n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a stalk of grain with the ear bending downward, thus distinguished from wheat, in which the ear is erect.

n. Whisky made from rye. [Colloq., U. S.]

n. A disease in hawks which causes the head to swell.

n. A gentleman; a superior person: as, a Rommany rye.

n. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

n. 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

n. the seed of the cereal grass

"It was during his work on the ergot fungus, which grows in rye kernels, that he stumbled on LSD, accidentally ingesting a trace of the compound one Friday afternoon in April 1943."

italian rye grass   

whiskey    whisky    cereal grass    cereal    caryopsis    grain   

wild rye    rock and rye    spurred rye   

ryegrass   

Ai    Alai    Ally    Bi    Bligh    Bly    Brunei    Cai    Cy    Dai   

barley    buckwheat    wheat    turnip    flax    cereal    clover    lentil    pea    alfalfa