hordeum
noun
hor·de·um
ˈhȯ(r)dēəm
1
capitalized : a widely distributed genus of grasses having the flowers in dense spikes often with long-awned glumes and the one-flowered spikelets in clusters of two or three at each joint of the rachis see barley
2
plural -s : any grass of the genus Hordeum
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, barley; akin to Old High German gersta barley, Greek kri, Albanian drith, and probably to Latin horrēre to bristle