| NOUN | plant | genus Secale, Secale | cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain |
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| Meaning | cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye. | |
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| Synonym | Secale | |
| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
| Members | rye, Secale cereale | 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 |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | genus secale, secale | |
| Catalan | genus secale, secale, Secale | |
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