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Noun: Hordeum
  1. Annual to perennial grasses of temperate Northern Hemisphere and South America: barley
    - genus Hordeum

Type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus

Part of: family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae

Encyclopedia: Hordeum