HORDEUM
\hɔːdˈiːəm], \hɔːdˈiːəm], \h_ɔː_d_ˈiː__ə_m]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Annual grasses (POACEAE) whose grains are used as food and for malting and distillation. Hordeum vulgare and Hordeum distichon are two of the more useful species.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The seeds of Hordeum vulgare or Scotch Barley, Ord. Grammeae, are ranked amongst the Cerealia. (F.) Orge. They afford a mucilaginous decoction, which is employed as a diluent and antiphlogistic. The seeds of the Hordeum distichon seu aestivum, Zeocriton distichum, and H. hexastichon possess similar properties. Barley is freed from its shells in mills, forming the Hordeum mundatum seu decorticaturn seu excorticatum, Hordeum of the Pharmacopoeias; and, at times, is rubbed into small, round grains, somewhat like pearls, when it is called Hordeum perlatum, Pearl Barley, (F.) Orge perle, and forms the Hordeum denudatum seu perlatum, the Hordei semina tunicis nndata, of the Pharmacopoeias, -Hordeum (Ph. U. S.)
By Robley Dunglison