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Yes, barley is playable

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"Barley" Definition

noun

A grass in the genus Hordeum, native to temperate regions, having flowers in terminal, often long-awned spikes.
The grain of H. vulgare or its varieties, used for livestock feed, malt production, and cereal.
Its seed used especially in malt beverages, breakfast foods, and stock feeds.
A cereal grass (genus and especially ) having the flowers in dense spikes with long awns and three spikelets at each joint of the rachis.

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