awned

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

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes Adjektiv mit der Bedeutung 'Grannen habend', also mit borstenartigen Fortsätzen, besonders bei Getreide oder Gräsern.

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.

   🇩🇪Begrannt

   Synonyme: beardedbristledbristly

   Antonyme: awnless