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Ragi vs Rye - What's the difference?

ragi | rye |

As nouns the difference between ragi and rye

is that ragi is Eleusine coracana, finger millet while rye is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

ragi

English

Noun

  • Eleusine coracana , finger millet.
    • ----

    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

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words