Rye vs Ergotism - What's the difference?
rye | ergotism |
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.
The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs.
As nouns the difference between rye and ergotism
is that rye is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs.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)