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barley

barley

30 1.6
A grain people grow for food, animal feed and making beer
  • noun
  • /ˈbɑrli/
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  • Farmers often choose to plant barley because it is a hardy cereal crop.
  • barley grain
  • barley flour
  • barley crop

OK, grains include oats and barley and wheat and this other thing.

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Examples

  • Fields contain corn, buckwheat, and barley, and pastures are covered with wildflowers in the spring.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Zeng brought me a small bag of dried barley and some bad news.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Is something wrong with the barley?

  • And so it went for decades, until the barley crop began to fail.

    Academic text (1990)
  • And we want 2,000 more tons of barley.

  • Both wheat and barley were consumed in great quantities.

  • The American Malting Barley Association and the North American Barley Genome Mapping Project help fund the research.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Amongst the arable crops, they began growing more barley as well as wheat to diversify the product.

  • About 3500 B.C.E., roughly equal amounts of wheat and barley were grown in southern Mesopotamia.

    Academic text (1990)
  • They ventured out in large numbers to collect a wide range of foodstuffs such as wheat, barley, olive oil, wine, and fruit.

Synonyms

Hordeum vulgare
vsbarley
  • Specialized
7.7

A cereal plant grown for its grain that people use for food, animal feed and making malt

is the everyday common name for the same species
common barley
vsbarley
2.7

A grain grown for food, animal feed, and to make beer

is the general cereal name used broadly beyond cultivation context

Compounds

A grain grown for food, animal feed, and to make beer

7.4

A hard clear sweet made from melted sugar and often shaped like animals

6.0

A grass that grows wild along roads and hedges and is often a weed

Young green leaves of the barley plant used as a health food such as powder or juice

A drink made by boiling barley in water often given to babies or served as a mild drink

A warm, hearty soup made with barley and vegetables or meat

barley-sugar
  • Archaic
6.9

A hard clear candy often twisted into a stick

foxtail barley
  • Specialized
9.3

A grass with long, silky seed heads like a fox tail, often grown for decoration or seen as a weed

8.4

A small wild grass like barley that grows in fields and along roads

Small round white grains of barley with outer layers removed for cooking

squirreltail barley
  • Specialized
9.9

A grass with long soft feathery flower heads often grown to look nice

9.9

A small wild grass that grows like a weed along roads and walls, with bristly seed heads

How Useful

wheat
230 1.0
barley
30 1.6
foxtail millet
  • Specialized
7.7

Surface Forms

barley singular
barleys plural

Etymology

Barley comes from an old English word bere meaning 'barley' or 'grain' plus a word ending that made it the name of the plant. So barley literally named the grain, which is why we still use the word for the cereal used in food and in beer.