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BARLEY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grain of barley

Synonyms:

barley; barleycorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("barley" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

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

pearl barley (barley ground into small round pellets)

Holonyms ("barley" is a part of...):

common barley; Hordeum vulgare (grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("barley" is a kind of...):

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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)

Holonyms ("barley" is a member of...):

genus Hordeum; Hordeum (annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley)

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