Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having awns: applied to leaves, leaf-stalks, etc., bearing a long rigid spine, as in barley, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses
Etymologies
- awn + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Some years back there was a lot of Soissons grown, this is an awned wheat and distinctly different from all other varieties.”
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“Other important species at the Jug Bay component include the large flowering partridge pea and the awned mountain mint.”
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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”
“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.”
“The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal.”
“Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea.”
“Panicle effuse, glumes I and II awned or not; callus naked.”
“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.”
“The fourth glume is often awned or reduced to an awn.”
“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.”
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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