WILD RYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild rye mean? 

• WILD RYE (noun)
  The noun WILD RYE has 1 sense:

1. any of several grasses of the genus Elymus

  Familiarity information: WILD RYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD RYE (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several grasses of the genus Elymus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wild rye" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild rye"):

Canada wild rye; Elymus canadensis (North American wild rye)

Elymus caput-medusae; medusa's head (weedy rye grass having long bristling awns)

Holonyms ("wild rye" is a member of...):

Elymus; genus Elymus (tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye))