barley | | |
n. (food) | 1. barley, barleycorn | a grain of barley. |
| ~ food grain, cereal, grain | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
| ~ pearl barley | barley ground into small round pellets. |
| ~ common barley, hordeum vulgare | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages. |
n. (plant) | 2. barley | cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain. |
| ~ genus hordeum, hordeum | annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley. |
| ~ common barley, hordeum vulgare | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages. |
| ~ barley grass, hordeum murinum, wall barley | European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows. |
| ~ foxtail barley, hordeum jubatum, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass | barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia. |
| ~ hordeum pusillum, little barley | annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America. |
| ~ cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
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