- rye - the seed of the cereal grass
--1 is a kind of grain, caryopsis
--1 is a part of rye, Secale cereale- rye, Secale cereale - 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
--2 is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
--2 is a member of Secale, genus Secale
--2 has parts: rye- rye, rye whiskey, rye whisky - whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
--3 is a kind of whiskey, whisky
- rye, Secale cereale - 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