Cereal vs Rye - What's the difference?
cereal | rye | Related terms |
(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
(countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
Caraway
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
Cereal is a related term of rye.
As a proper noun cereal
is a village in alberta, canada.As a noun rye is
a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.cereal
English
(wikipedia cereal)Noun
(en-noun)- Would you like some cereal ?
- Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* cereal bar * cereal dust * cereal killer * pseudocerealExternal links
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* * * English eponyms ----rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)