Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having awns: applied to leaves, leaf-stalks, etc., bearing a long rigid spine, as in barley, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Furnished with an
awn , or longbristle -shapedtip ;bearded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some years back there was a lot of Soissons grown, this is an awned wheat and distinctly different from all other varieties.
Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Other important species at the Jug Bay component include the large flowering partridge pea and the awned mountain mint.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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The fourth glume is often awned or reduced to an awn.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _third glume_ is narrow, convolute, scaberulous, 3-nerved awned with a shortly bearded callus, the awn is three branched articulate to the short column at the base about 3/4 inch long with the middle branch slightly longer than the other two; _palea_ is minute.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _pedicelled spikelets_ are slightly narrower than the sessile, generally not pitted (though pitted in some plants), and not awned, and each one consists of three glumes only; the pedicel is more than half as long as the sessile spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The second glume is narrow lanceolate, longer than the first, 3 - to 5-nerved, hispidly villous dorsally below the middle and on the sides, aristate or awned.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is shorter than the third, deeply 2-fid and awned in the cleft, bisexual or female, 3 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Panicle effuse, glumes I and II awned or not; callus naked.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
bilby commented on the word awned
Bearded? Out-hip that annoying hipster with a put-down that will leave him scratching his artfully-grown faceful.
February 2, 2016