| secale | (n) cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye, Syn. genus Secale |
| rye | (n) 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, Syn. Secale cereale |
| Secale | ‖n. [ L., a kind of grain. ] (Bot.) A genus of cereal grasses including rye. [ 1913 Webster ] |