Definition for Barley:

• A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

Synonyms for Barley:

• n.

  •
  • bluegrass,
  • belladonna.
  •barley (noun)
  • barleycorn.
  •feed (noun)
  • grub,
  • Corns,
  • corn,
  • barleys,
  • pasturage,
  • provender,
  • hay,
  • animal food,
  • meals,
  • meal,
  • vittles,
  • forage,
  • silage,
  • silages,
  • provisions.
  •food (noun)
  • barley.
  •grass (noun)
  • verdure,
  • meadow,
  • turf,
  • sod,
  • pasture.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • briar,
  • nettle,
  • malt,
  • horseradish,
  • cress,
  • bracken,
  • agave,
  • catmint,
  • cassava,
  • maidenhair,
  • aspidistra,
  • pea,
  • bindweed,
  • escarole,
  • spider plant,
  • tumbleweed,
  • rye grass,
  • ragweed,
  • wheat,
  • soybean,
  • sesame,
  • cotton,
  • mustard,
  • pot plant,
  • rattan,
  • tobacco,
  • winter cherry,
  • poison oak,
  • prickly pear,
  • straw,
  • aloe,
  • clover,
  • poinsettia,
  • rubber plant,
  • sorghum,
  • shamrock,
  • Venus flytrap,
  • spearmint,
  • wheatgrass,
  • potato,
  • peppermint,
  • poison ivy,
  • rice,
  • bamboo,
  • betel,
  • catnip,
  • ivy,
  • lichen,
  • Chinese Lantern,
  • rye,
  • stinging nettle,
  • sugar cane,
  • feed,
  • hemp,
  • grapevine,
  • Virginia Creeper.
  •
  • vine,
  • jute.

Paraphrases for Barley:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wheat, grain.

Barley Sentence Examples:

• It was only necessary to look for a moment at the fair, open forehead, the still, tranquil eye of gentle, habitual authority, the sweet gravity that lay upon the lips, to hear the clear answers to the pupils' questions, to notice how every request had the force without the form of a command, and the young man could not doubt that the good genius of the school stood before him in the person of Helen barley.

• These are Imperial Granum, Ridge's Food, Hubbell's Prepared Wheat, and Robinson's Patent Barley.

Homophones for Barley:

• beer hall, brail, brill, burial, boreal, birl, braille, biyearly, behavioural, brolly, browallia, broil, barilla, bovril, brule, beryl, biaural, brawl, behavioral, burl, borrelia, barely, birle, burly, bore-hole, barrel.

Holonyms for Barley:

• n.

  • food
    Hordeum Vulgare, common barley.
  • plant
    hordeum, Genus Hordeum.

Hypernym for Barley:

• n.

  • food
    pearl barley.
  • plant
    common barley, foxtail barley, Squirreltail Grass, Hordeum Jubatum, Hordeum Pusillum, Hordeum Vulgare, Squirreltail Barley, little barley, wall barley, Hordeum Murinum, barley grass.

Hyponym for Barley:

• n.

  • food
    cereal, food grain, grain.
  • plant
    cereal grass, cereal.