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common barley

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.48 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon bar-ley
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant of the species Hordeum vulgare, which yields the commercially important cereal grain barley.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

common barleys (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

hordeum vulgare

Questions

What does common barley mean?
A plant of the species Hordeum vulgare, which yields the commercially important cereal grain barley.

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