noun
annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley
• Syn: ↑Hordeum
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms:
↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family
• Member Meronyms: ↑barley
Useful english dictionary. 2012.