little barley

1. 1.

   annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America

   SynonymsHordeum pusillum

   Broaderbarley

Questions about little barley

What does little barley mean?

little barley means "annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America".

What is another word for little barley?

Close synonyms include Hordeum pusillum. 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 little barley a common word?

little 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.