foxtail barley

Questions about foxtail barley

What is another word for foxtail barley?

It depends which foxtail barley you mean. In the sense “barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia”, the synonyms are squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass, Hordeum jubatum. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of foxtail barley?

WordNet records no antonym for foxtail barley. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for foxtail barley come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of foxtail barley

• Full entry for foxtail barleyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for foxtail barleyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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