Secale

noun

Se·​ca·​le

sə̇ˈkā(ˌ)lē

: a genus of cereal grasses having the 2-flowered spikelets in a dense spike, the lemma tipped with a long awn, and the empty glumes one-nerved see rye sense 1

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, rye

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Rhymes for Secale

• colley
• collie
• dolly
• folly
• golly
• holly
• jolley
• jolly
• lolly
• mollie
• molly
• ollie