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Rye vs Roe - What's the difference?

rye | roe |

As nouns the difference between rye and roe

is that rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while roe is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground.

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

    roe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia roe)
  • The eggs of fish.
  • The sperm of certain fish.
  • The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    • Quotations
    * 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)
    Synonyms
    * (sperm) milt
    Derived terms
    * hard roe * soft roe * white roe

    See also

    * caviar * egg

    References

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ro, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun) (Roe Deer)
  • A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
  • A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
    • Synonyms
    * roe deer, chevreuil
    Derived terms
    * roebuck

    Anagrams

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