rye

English Thesaurus

1. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt (noun.food)

hypernym	:	whiskey, whisky,
definition	:	a liquor made from fermented mash of grain (noun.food)

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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	cereal, cereal grass,
definition	:	grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	rye,
definition	:	the seed of the cereal grass (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus secale, secale,
definition	:	cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye (noun.plant)

3. the seed of the cereal grass (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryopsis, grain,
definition	:	dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn (noun.plant)

part meronym	:	rye, secale cereale,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

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