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rye seed

rye seed noun: caraway seed, used whole as a flavoring in the best-known type of rye bread, and often mistakenly assumed to be the rye itself.

Noun

rye seed (plural rye seeds)

  1. Caraway seed, used whole as a flavoring in the best-known type of rye bread, and often mistakenly assumed to be the rye itself.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rye, seed.

Forms of rye seed

pluralrye seeds

Questions about rye seed

What does rye seed mean?
Rye seed means caraway seed, used whole as a flavoring in the best-known type of rye bread, and often mistakenly assumed to be the rye itself.
What part of speech is rye seed?
Rye seed is a noun.
What is the plural of rye seed?
The plural of rye seed is rye seeds.

Words near rye seed in the dictionary

  1. rye flour
  2. rye flours
  3. rye grass
  4. rye grasses
  5. Rye Park
  6. rye seed
  7. rye seeds
  8. rye wolf
  9. rye wolves
  10. rye-grass
  11. rye-grasses

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