Oat vs Rye - What's the difference?
oat | rye |
(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
(usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
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.
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
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- World trade in oat is increasing.
- The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .
Derived terms
* animated oat * oatmeal * rolled oats * be off one's oats * feel one's oats * sow one's wild oats * wild red oatSee also
* branAnagrams
* * * ----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)