barley
English Thesaurus
1. a grain of barley (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | cereal, food grain, grain, |
| definition | : | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | pearl barley, |
| definition | : | barley ground into small round pellets (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | common barley, hordeum vulgare, |
| definition | : | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages (noun.plant) |
2. cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | cereal, cereal grass, |
| definition | : | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | common barley, hordeum vulgare, |
| definition | : | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hordeum pusillum, little barley, |
| definition | : | annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus hordeum, hordeum, |
| definition | : | annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley (noun.plant) |
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