awn
noun
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
awned
-
a word derived from
awn.
Example Sentences
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Flower mostly hairy at base, the glume mucronate or awned.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Flowering glume and palet very thin, pointless, naked; the first 3–5-nerved, frequently awned on the back; the palet often minute or none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Hair′-grass, a kind of grass found generally on poor soil, the bracts of whose florets are generally awned near the base; Hair′iness.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Flowering glume thin, compressed, carinate, 2-toothed, awned above by the excurrent mid nerve.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Calyx.—Bilabiate; each lip with two or three awned teeth.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
