awned

An obsolete adjective meaning having awns (bristle-like appendages, especially on grasses or grains).

• 🌐صفة نادرة أو قديمة تعني ذا سَفا، أي ما له شعيرات أو هُدْب شوكية دقيقة، ولا سيما في النباتات النجيلية أو الحبوب.

1. Having bristle-like appendages C2 formal

   Describing a plant, especially a cereal or grass, that possesses awns—slender, bristle-like structures on its flowering parts.

   • The botanist identified the grass as an awned species.
   • Barley is a common example of an awned cereal crop.
   • The awned spikelets of the wheat plant help in seed dispersal.

   🌐ذو الأَسْبَلَة

   المرادفات: beardedbristledbristly

   الأضداد: awnless