barley
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- noun
- /ˈbɑrli/
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cebada
- 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.
- OK, grains include oats and barley and wheat and this other thing.
- And they have, you know, a cup of warm barley gruel.
- That includes wheat, barley, rye, rice, Corn is grain.
- Quinoa is fine, barley is fine, oats are fine, right?
- How is this thing of designing the seeds that we use for barley in Argentina and Brazil?
- I'm pretty sure it's Malt Pops, barley, water, dead leprechauns, pure magic.
- Then she has she put a some of the herbs and roasted barley in.
- They would lend barley or wheat and they would charge interest in terms of wheat.
- I have this stuff here from Alpha H instant facial with Cypress and barley.
- So, you know, if you're making beef consomme and you switch to making beef barley soup, you don't need to clean the VAT at all.
- But what grows on barley is Clavichep's paspali, which is an LSD like fungus.
- So these are, you know, your oats, your barley, brown rice, quinoa, rye, your legumes.
Examples
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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?
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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.
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Both wheat and barley were consumed in great quantities.
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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.
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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
A cereal plant grown for its grain that people use for food, animal feed and making malt
A grain grown for food, animal feed, and to make beer
Compounds
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
- Specialized
A grass with long, silky seed heads like a fox tail, often grown for decoration or seen as a weed
- Specialized
A grass with long soft feathery flower heads often grown to look nice
- UK
A small wild grass that grows like a weed along roads and walls, with bristly seed heads
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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.