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
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grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
noun
barley ground into small round pellets
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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
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barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia