Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender bristle, especially one at the tip of a glume or lemma in a grass spikelet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a bristle-shaped terminal or dorsal appendage, such as the beard of wheat, barley, and many grasses.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
own .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
bristle orbeard ofbarley ,oats ,grasses , etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage;arista .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The _fourth glume_ is the linear, hyaline, 3-nerved base of the awn; the _awn_ is 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 inches and bent at about the middle.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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*puts awn hat wiv corkz, getz owt geetar, fynds stump tu sit awn*
Allergic to - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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*gigglolz…owchi…gigglolz* teh lazt tin ai wud beh wantins rite at teh moment Aiz in rite neow tuday dis sekund ob teh caterday aberturnoon rite neow iz anyfing with the furmentedness *holds awn tu hur heds an putz the sungoggehbglasses awn*
Lolcat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Teh kitteez heer in Victoria, OZ, hab tu wair a tag awn a kollar, hab a chip in teh skin, hab a tattuu in teh eer adn arnt allowd owt at nite !
It’s a warm AND a source of noms. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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She still carried her teef home inna hanky wiv her name awn, ob corse.
some assemblies required - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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June 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm yu bii postun dat won wif eh tag awn teh faisbuk, aifinkso…
I sed rub it… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Can ai has ur awto…orter…ottur…. can u rite ur name awn dis pees of paper plz?
I so hungry I could eat a…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I klikked awn mah bloo name awn Who be talkin an it sed URL nawt valid or sumfink lyke dat.
Just wait until the tomcat who is - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The two lateral lobes are narrower, sometimes linear, and are often prolonged into an awn, which is generally turned away from the center of the spike.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The long awn, which is around 7 times as long as the lemma, is attached to the top of the lemma.
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