rye
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the seed of the cereal grass
Types & categories
- caryopsis hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Secale cereale part holonym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- cereal hypernym
Parts & wholes
Sense 3 noun
whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
Types & categories
- whiskey hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Secale cereale |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | caryopsis |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Secale |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | rye |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | cereal |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | whiskey |