Look up: awn

1. Awn
   Slender bristle-like projection arising from the back or tip of the glumes and lemmas in some grasses.
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2. awn
   [n] - slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
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3. Awn
   A terminal or lateral bristle on a seed or plant organ.
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4. Awn
   A bristle characteristic of the spikelets in some grasses.
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5. Awn
   A stiff bristle, especially on the grains of cereals and grasses.
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6. Awn
   Awn (an) noun [ Middle English awn , agune , from Icelandic ögn , plural agnir ; akin to Swedish agn , Danish avne , Goth. ahana , Old High German agana , German agen , ahne , c...
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7. awn
   <botany> A bristle-like appendage, for example on the tip or back of the lemma of a grass floret. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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8. awn
   noun slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
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9. Awn
   • (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
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10. awn
    (from the article `Poaceae`) Special spikelet structures aid in the dispersal and establishment of grass seeds. The backs or tips of glumes and lemmas may develop one or more ...
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11. Awn
    (botany) In botany, an `awn` is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure, or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the pappus. Awns are characteristic of many grasses (Poaceae), where they extend from the lemmas of the florets. They often make up ...
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