1. the seed of the cereal grass • Hypernyms: grain, caryopsis • Part Holonyms: Secale cereale 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 • Hypernyms: cereal, cereal grass • Member Holonyms: Secale, genus Secale 3. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt • Syn: rye whiskey, rye whisky • Hypernyms: whiskey, whisky