'Hordeum vulgare' definitions:
Definition of 'Hordeum vulgare'
From: WordNet
noun
Grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages [syn: common barley, Hordeum vulgare]
Definition of 'Hordeum vulgare'
From: GCIDE
- 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]