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noun

Rye n.

(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.

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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Etymology of 'Wild rye'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... at the mouth. (2) Dined on an Island Called de Selamen and delayed 3 hours, and proceeded on, opposit this Isld. on the L. S. is a (3) butifull Bottom Prarie whuch will Contain about 2000 acres of Land covered with wild rye & wild Potatoes, gread numbers of Goslings on the Banks & in the Ponds near the river, Capt Lewis Killed two this evening, we came to & Camped for the night. at a point on the S. S. opposit a yellow ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al