BarleyWordNet Explorer

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noun

a grain of barley

Words in this synset: barleycorn
noun

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

noun

grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages

noun

barley ground into small round pellets

noun

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

noun

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

noun

European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows

noun

barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia

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