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Noun: Secale cereale
  1. 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
    - rye

Type of: cereal, cereal grass

Part of: genus Secale, Secale

Encyclopedia: Secale cereale