COMMON BARLEY

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

common barley; Hordeum vulgare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common barley" is a kind of...):

barley (cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain)

Meronyms (parts of "common barley"):

barley; barleycorn; barleycorn (a grain of barley)

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