Usually means: Grain used for bread, whiskey.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rye, rye: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rye, rye: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rye: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rye: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rye, rye: Wordnik
  7. rye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rye, rye: Wiktionary
  9. rye: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rye: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rye: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rye, rye: Dictionary.com
  13. rye: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rye: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RYE, Rye (UK Parliament constituency), Rye (disambiguation), Rye (grain), Rye (surname), Rye, The Rye: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rye: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rye: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rye: Rhymezone
  19. rye: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rye: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rye: Free Dictionary
  22. rye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rye: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. rye: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)

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  1. Rye (botany), Rye (grain), rye: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Rye (botany), Rye (grain), rye: Medical dictionary

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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rye: Easton Bible
  2. Rye: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Rye: HYPP Zoology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
noun:  The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
noun:  Rye bread.
noun:  (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
noun:  (US, Canada) A drink of rye.
noun:  Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
noun:  Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
noun:  A disease of hawks.
noun:  A small town and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9220).
noun:  A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7750).
noun:  A river in North Yorkshire, England, that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.
noun:  A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
noun:  A census-designated place in Cleveland County, Arkansas.
noun:  A small statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.
noun:  A ghost town in Adair County, Missouri.
noun:  A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A coastal suburban city in Westchester County, New York.
noun:  A large town in Westchester County, New York.
noun:  A coastal suburb in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A nickname of the given name Ryan.

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