common barley

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

   SynonymsHordeum vulgare

   Broaderbarley

   Partsbarleybarleycorn

Questions about common barley

What does common barley mean?

common barley means "grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages".

What is another word for common barley?

Close synonyms include Hordeum vulgare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common barley a common word?

common barley is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.