hordeum

noun

hor·​de·​um

ˈhȯ(r)dēəm

1

capitalized : a widely distributed genus of grasses having the flowers in dense spikes often with long-awned glumes and the one-flowered spikelets in clusters of two or three at each joint of the rachis see barley

2

plural -s : any grass of the genus Hordeum

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, barley; akin to Old High German gersta barley, Greek kri, Albanian drith, and probably to Latin horrēre to bristle

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