rye
/raɪ/noun
mass noun
1
- a wheat-like cereal plant which tolerates poor soils and low temperatures黑麦。
1.1
- Secale cereale, family Gramineae.拉丁名Secale cereale,禾本科。
1.2
- 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。
2
- （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。
3
- 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。
词源
Old English ryge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rogge and German Roggen.