rye
Plural: ryes
Noun
- A cereal grass widely grown for grain and forage.
- 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
- whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
- Rye bread.
- Rye whiskey.
- A drink of rye.
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.
Examples
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Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.
Synonyms
rye whiskey, rye whisky, Secale cereale
Scrabble Score: 6
rye: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrye: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rye: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
rye: valid Words With Friends Word