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rye vs cereal grass

cereal grass vs rye

rye and cereal grass both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
rye Yes No No No
cereal grass Yes No No No
As nouns, cereal grass is a hypernym of rye; that is, cereal grass 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: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
Other hypernyms of rye include cereal.
rye (noun) cereal grass (noun)
whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
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 rye and cereal grass

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