Barley vs Flour - What's the difference?
barley | flour |
A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare , or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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As nouns the difference between barley and flour
is that barley is a cereal of the species hordeum vulgare , or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks while flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.As a verb flour is
to apply flour to something; to cover with flour.barley
English
(wikipedia barley) (Hordeum vulgare)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* barley-bird * barley-bree * barley-broth * barley-hood * barleymow * barley sugar * barley water * barley-wine * four-rowed barley * pearl barley * sea barley * sprat-barleyAnagrams
* * *flour
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Alternative forms
* flower (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- wood flour , produced by sanding wood
- mustard flour
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .