cereal vs rye

cereal and rye both are nouns.

cereal is an adjective but rye is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No
rye	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rye is a hyponym of cereal; that is, rye is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cereal:

cereal: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
rye: 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

Other hyponyms of cereal include oat, barley, rice, rice grass, ricegrass, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, Secale cereale, millet, grain, wheat, corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays, corn, wild rice, Zizania aquatica.

cereal (noun)	rye (noun)
a breakfast food prepared from grain	whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses	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
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet	the seed of the cereal grass

cereal (adjective)	rye (adjective)
made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between cereal and rye

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