NOUN | plant | Secale cereale, rye | 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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Meaning | 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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Synonym | rye | |
Member of | Secale, genus Secale | cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain |
Parts | rye | The seed of the cereal grass |
Broader | cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food |
Spanish | centeno, secale cereale | |
Catalan | secale cereale, Secale cereale, sègoll, sègol |
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