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GENUS HORDEUM

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Meaning:

Annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley

Synonyms:

genus Hordeum; Hordeum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Hordeum" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hordeum"):

barley (cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain)

Holonyms ("genus Hordeum" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

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