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Awned

adjective
1.
Having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.  Synonym: awny.






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"Awned" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself prone on a velvety carpet of moss, and gave myself up to a profound investigation of the one square foot of ground which lay beneath my eyes. The number of blades of grass was prodigious. A few, already awned, stood above their fellows, waving like palms-meadowgrass, fescue, foxtail, brome-grass—each slender stalk crowned with a tuft. Others were budding, only half unfolded, amid the darker mass of spongy moss which gave them ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin



Words linked to "Awned" :   awnless, bearded



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