barley
A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
Other meanings
The seed of Job's tears. Coix lacryma-jobi
A kind of
- grain
Word history
From Old English "bærlīċ" (barley-like).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “barley” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.