English > Secale: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye. |
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| Synonym | genus Secale |
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| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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| 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 |
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| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | genus secale, secale |
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| Catalan | genus secale, secale, Secale |
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