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Awned

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Adjective

1. awned, awny

having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses

Example Sentences:
'awned wheatgrass'

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Awned

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noun
any of the bristles growing from the spikelets of certain grasses, including cereals

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Awned

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noun
Botany
any bristlelike fiber or fibers, as on the head of barley, oats, or wheat; beard

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Awned

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n.
Botany
A slender bristle, especially one at the tip of a glume or lemma in a grass spikelet.

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