pearl barley

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   barley ground into small round pellets

   Broaderbarley

Questions about pearl barley

What does pearl barley mean?

pearl barley means "barley ground into small round pellets".

Is pearl barley a common word?

pearl 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.