HORDEUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hordeum mean? 

• HORDEUM (noun)
  The noun HORDEUM has 1 sense:

1. annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley

  Familiarity information: HORDEUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORDEUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hordeum; Hordeum

Hypernyms ("Hordeum" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Hordeum"):

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

Holonyms ("Hordeum" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)