barley
nounHow many syllables in barley?
There are 2 syllables in the word barley.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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