barley has definitions from the fields of food,botany
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[ noun ] (food) a grain of barley

Synonyms

barleycorn

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

With these completed and ice gone from the St._Peter's_River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat , 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big_Stone_Lake , across into Lake_Traverse , and down the Red .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9745
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[ noun ] (botany) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
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