English noun: Secale cereale | |||
1. | Secale cereale (plant) 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 | rye | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cereal, cereal grass | ||
Part holonym | rye | ||
Member meronym | genus Secale, Secale | ||