单词 | rye |
释义 | rye rye1 /ruy/, n. 1. a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets. 2. the seeds or grain of this plant, used for making flour and whiskey, and as a livestock feed. 3. See rye bread. 4. a straight whiskey distilled from a mash containing 51 percent or more rye grain. 5. Northeastern U.S. and Canada. a blended whiskey. adj. 6. made with rye grain or flour: rye rolls. Also called rye whiskey (for defs. 4, 5). [bef. 900; ME; OE ryge; c. ON rugr; akin to D rogge, G Roggen] rye2 /ruy/, n. a male Gypsy. [1850-55; < Romany rai] |
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