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barley
noun
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Divide barley into syllables:

bar · ley

How to pronounce barley:

Definition of barley:

barley (noun):
a grain of barley.
its seed used especially in malt beverages, breakfast foods, and stock feeds
a cereal grass (genus hordeum and especially h. vulgare) having the flowers in dense spikes with long awns and three spikelets at each joint of the rachis

Synonyms for barley:

barleycorn
bourbon
cereal
common barley
firewater
grain
hordeum vulgare
john barleycorn
malt
pearl barley
rye
scotch
usquebaugh
whisky

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