rye : Idioms & Phrases


canada wild rye

  • noun North American wild rye
    Elymus canadensis.
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french rye

  • noun coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
    Arrhenatherum elatius; false oat; evergreen grass; tall oat grass; tall meadow grass.
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Italian ray, ∨ rye, grass

  • . See Darnel, and Grass.
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italian rye

  • noun European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure
    Italian ryegrass; Lolium multiflorum.
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jewish rye

  • noun (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds
    Jewish rye.
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jewish rye bread

  • noun (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds
    Jewish rye.
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rye bread

  • noun any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour
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rye ergot

  • noun a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
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rye grass

  • noun any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses
    ryegrass.
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Rye grass, Italian rye grass

  • (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel.
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rye whiskey

  • noun whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
    rye; rye whiskey.
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rye whisky

  • noun whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
    rye; rye whiskey.
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Spring rye

  • a kind of rye sown in the spring; in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.
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swedish rye

  • noun a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind
    Swedish rye.
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swedish rye bread

  • noun a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind
    Swedish rye.
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Wild rye

  • noun any of several grasses of the genus Elymus
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  • (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.
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Winter rye

  • a kind of rye that is sown in autumn.
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