n :  a cereal grass (genus Hordeum, esp. H. vulgare) having the flowers in dense spikes with long awns and three spikelets at each joint of the rachis : also  :  its seed used in malt beverages and in breakfast foods and stock feeds .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  ba·ri·lla  Beer's law  bor·re·lia  braille 
 
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