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four-rowed barley

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[fawr-rohd, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌroʊd, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

  1. a class of barley having, in each spike, six rows of grain, with two pairs of rows overlapping.


Etymology

Origin of four-rowed barley

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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The species principally cultivated are Hordĕum distĭchum, two-rowed barley; H. vulgāre, four-rowed barley; and H. hexastichum, six-rowed, of which the small variety is the sacred barley of the ancients.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

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