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Oat vs Rye - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between oat and rye

is that oat is widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa while rye is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

oat

English

(wikipedia oat)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
  • The oat stalks made good straw.
    The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
    World trade in oat is increasing.
  • (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
  • The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .
  • (usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
  • Derived terms

    * animated oat * oatmeal * rolled oats * be off one's oats * feel one's oats * sow one's wild oats * wild red oat

    See also

    * bran

    Anagrams

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    rye

    English

    (wikipedia rye)

    Noun

  • 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:
  • 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.
  • Caraway
  • Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
  • A disease of hawks.
  • (Ainsworth)

    Derived terms

    * ryegrass