hordeum vulgare

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hordeum vulgare - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bear \Bear\, Bere \Bere\ (b[=e]r), n. [AS. bere. See Barley.]
     (Bot.)
     Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley,
     commonly the former (Hordeum hexastichon or Hordeum vulgare
     ). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]

hordeum vulgare - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Hordeum vulgare
      n 1: grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal
           feed and in malt beverages [syn: common barley, Hordeum vulgare
           ]