rye /ˈraɪ/
 稞麥,麥田;稞麥威士忌酒


 rye /ˈraɪ/ 名詞
 黑麥,麥角


 Rye n.
 1. Bot. A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself.  Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
 2. A disease in a hawk.
 Rye grass, Italian rye grass, Bot. See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel.
 Wild rye Bot., any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.

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 rye
      n 1: the seed of the cereal grass
      2: hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern
         Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black
         bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
         [syn: Secale cereale]
      3: whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt [syn: {rye
         whiskey, rye whisky]


 Rye
    =Rie, (Heb. kussemeth), found in Ex. 9:32; Isa. 28:25, in all of
    which the margins of the Authorized and of the Revised Versions
    have "spelt." This Hebrew word also occurs in Ezek. 4:9, where
    the Authorized Version has "fitches' (q.v.) and the Revised
    Version "spelt." This, there can be no doubt, was the Triticum
    spelta, a species of hard, rough-grained wheat.