COMMON BARLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common barley mean? 

• COMMON BARLEY (noun)
  The noun COMMON BARLEY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COMMON BARLEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON BARLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common barley; Hordeum vulgare

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)