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# barley

«barley» in Mova's school dictionary: **used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (barley, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: barley is a crop grown on farms; in history, one of the first crops people grew. In food: barley soup, barley water (UK drink). Phrases: a field of barley, barley water, pearl barley.

### examples

- The farmer grows barley in that field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x1)
- Barley soup is warm and filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x2)
- Barley is used to make malt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x3)
- Barley was one of the first crops people farmed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x4)
- Lemon barley water is a British drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x5)
- The wind made the barley wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x6)
- They were flying about when three grains of barley fell on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Other cereals: wheat, oats, rye, rice, maize. "Barley sugar" is a kind of boiled sweet.

### In the corpora

- [In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/15/)
- [Sleep takes him «as a swathe of barley is folded into the arms of the reaping machine».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/33/)
- [And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.266/)
- [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/)
- [So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.36/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barley» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.