four-rowed barley

[ fawr-rohd, fohr- ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of four-rowed barley¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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.

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