cereal grass vs rye

rye vs cereal grass

cereal grass and rye both are nouns.

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

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

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

Difference between cereal grass and rye

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