Found 3 items, similar to Rye.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: rye
gandum hitam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rye
rye
n 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
[syn:
Secale cereale]
3: whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt [syn:
rye whiskey
,
rye whisky]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rye
Rye
\Rye\ (r[imac]), n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel.
rugr, Sw. r[*a]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G.
rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr.
'o`ryza rice. Cf.
Rice.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
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2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth.
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Rye grass,
Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under
Grass.
See also
Ray grass, and
Darnel.
Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus
Elymus, tall
grasses with much the appearance of rye.
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