barley

1. A grain of barley (synset 107819069)
   is a type of: cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
   subtypes: pearl barley - barley ground into small round pellets
   is a part of: common barley, hordeum vulgare - grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
   same as: barleycorn
2. Cultivated since prehistoric times;
   Grown for forage and grain (synset 112143761)
   is a type of: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
   subtypes:

   • common barley, hordeum vulgare - grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
   • barley grass, hordeum murinum, wall barley - European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
   • foxtail barley, hordeum jubatum, squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass - barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
   • hordeum pusillum, little barley - annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
   belongs to: genus hordeum, hordeum - annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley

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