rye vs cereal

rye and cereal both are nouns.

rye is not an adjective while cereal is an adjective.

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

As nouns, cereal is a hypernym of rye; that is, cereal is a word with a broader meaning than rye:

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

Other hypernyms of rye include cereal grass.

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

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

Difference between rye and cereal

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