rye

rye
noun
[mass noun]

a wheat-like cereal plant which tolerates poor soils and low temperatures
黑麦
Secale cereale, family Gramineae
拉丁名Secale cereale，禾本科
■grains of this, used mainly for making bread or whisky, and for fodder
黑麦粒，黑麦籽
[as modifier]rye flour.
黑麦粉。
(亦作 rye whisky)whisky in which a significant amount of the grain used in distillation is fermented rye
黑麦威士忌酒
half a bottle of rye.
半瓶黑麦威士忌酒。
(chiefly N. Amer.). short for rye bread:
(主北美)。 rye bread 的简称
pastrami on rye.
黑面包上的五香烟熏牛肉。

语源

Old English ryge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rogge and German Roggen