a kind of wild barley

  • 1BARLEY — (Heb. שְׂעוֹרָה; se orah), one of the seven species (see food ) with which Ereẓ Israel was blessed (Deut. 8:8). In biblical times barley bread was a staple food and was extensively cultivated, especially as it grows even in poor soil and in areas …

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  • 2Hordeum pratense — Rie Rie, n. See {Rye}. [Obs.] Holland. [1913 Webster] {Rie grass}. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley ({Hordeum pratense}). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3Rie — Rie, n. See {Rye}. [Obs.] Holland. [1913 Webster] {Rie grass}. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley ({Hordeum pratense}). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4Rie grass — Rie Rie, n. See {Rye}. [Obs.] Holland. [1913 Webster] {Rie grass}. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley ({Hordeum pratense}). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5agriculture, origins of — Introduction  the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms wet rice production… …

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  • 6Wheat — This article is about the plant. For other uses, see Wheat (disambiguation). Wheat Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranke …

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  • 7Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology       Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …

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  • 8Tollund Man — The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre Roman Iron Age.Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bog/tollund.html|title=Tollund …

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  • 9Indonesian cuisine — See also: List of Indonesian dishes Example of Indonesian Sundanese meal; roasted fish, nasi timbel (rice wrapped in banana leaf), fried chicken, sambal, fried tempeh and tofu, and sayur asem; the bowl of water with lime is kobokan …

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  • 10Ancient Israelite cuisine — refers to the food eaten by the ancient Israelites during a period of over a thousand years, from the beginning of the Israelite presence in the Land of Israel at the beginning of the Iron Age until the Roman period. The dietary staples were… …

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