noun
- The seed of the cereal grass.
- 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.
- synonyms: Secale cereale
- Whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt.
- synonyms: rye whiskey, rye whisky
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