Definition of barley Barley

/bɑˈɹli/ - [barlee] - bar•ley

We found 10 definitions of barley from 8 different sources.

What does barley mean?

Noun Plural: barleys
barley - cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
		cereal grass, cereal a breakfast food prepared from grain
		genus hordeum, hordeum annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley
		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
barley - a grain of barley
		barleycorn
		food grain, cereal, grain a breakfast food prepared from grain
		common barley, hordeum vulgare grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages

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barley (Noun)
A strong cereal of the genus Hordeum, or its grains, often used as food or to make malted drinks.

barley (n.)
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.

barley
A strong cereal of the genus Hordeum, or its grains, often used as food or to make malted drinks.

barley
bär′li, n. a hardy grain used for food, but chiefly for making malt liquors and spirits.—ns. Bar′ley-bree, -broth, strong ale; Bar′ley-corn, personified as John Barleycorn, the grain from which malt is made: a single grain of barley: a measure of length = ⅓ of an inch; Bar′ley-su′gar, a mixture of sugar with a decoction of pearl-barley, boiled till it is candied; Bar′ley-wat′er, a decoction of pearl-barley; Pearl′-bar′ley, the grain stripped of husk and pellicle, and completely rounded by grinding; Pot′-bar′ley, the grain deprived by milling of its outer husk, used in making broth, &c. [A.S. bærlíc, bere, and suffix -líc.]
barley
bär′li, interj. (Scot.) a term used in games in demand of a truce, parley (of which it is most prob. a corruption)