genus hordeum

English Thesaurus

1. annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	barley,
definition	:	cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae,
definition	:	the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane (noun.plant)