English > barley: 2 senses > noun 2, plant| Meaning | cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain. |
|---|
| Member of | Hordeum, genus Hordeum | annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America |
|---|
| Narrower | barley grass, wall barley, Hordeum murinum | European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows |
|---|
| common barley, Hordeum vulgare | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages |
| little barley, Hordeum pusillum | annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America |
| squirreltail barley, foxtail barley, squirreltail grass, Hordeum jubatum | barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns |
| Broader | cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food |
|---|
| Spanish | cebada |
|---|
| Catalan | ordi |
|---|
