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RYE BREAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rye bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rye bread"):

black bread; pumpernickel (bread made of coarse rye flour)

Jewish rye; Jewish rye bread ((Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds)

limpa (a rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar)

Swedish rye; Swedish rye bread (a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind)

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