barley

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Hordeum vulgare, common barley

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

Hordeum murinum, barley grass, wall barley

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

Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass

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

Hordeum pusillum, little barley

annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America

Type of:

cereal, cereal grass

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

Synonyms:

barleycorn

Types:

pearl barley

barley ground into small round pellets

Type of:

cereal, food grain, grain

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses