RYE BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rye bread mean? 

• RYE BREAD (noun)
  The noun RYE BREAD has 1 sense:

1. any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour

  Familiarity information: RYE BREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RYE BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

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)