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barley

[bahr-lee] / ˈbɑr li /




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Rozel Shrestha, 12, set fire to a tiny effigy made of straw and barley, representing his missing father, at Kathmandu's Pashupati temple on the banks of the Bagmati river.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Cattle receive specialized, highly-regulated care and expensive feeds of barley, corn, alfalfa and rice bran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

People appear to have shifted back toward more traditional crops such as wheat and barley during the later stages of the Late Bronze Age.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Many of the raw ingredients used to make beer, including barley, wheat and brewer's yeast, contain vitamin B6 and the brewing process doesn't kill it all off, research suggests.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

In the morning, Eunjoo heated the barley tea and poured it into bowls of yesterday’s cold rice and served it with roasted seaweed, sautéed anchovies, and kimchee.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"However, the barleys look well; but perhaps you don't understand farming?"

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

“However, the barleys look well; but perhaps you don’t understand farming?”

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

Their yield is small compared with native barleys, although this may improve when they are fully acclimatised.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan




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