Awn Synonyms

Awn Sentence Examples

• The wild oat, moreover, has a long stiff awn, usually twisted near the base.

• The awn is also of use in burying the fruit in the soil.

• Valuable characters for distinguishing genera are obtained from the awn.

• When terminal the awn has three fibro-vascular bundles, when dorsal only one; it is covered with stomate-bearing epidermis.

• The pair of barren glumes (b) are separated from the flowering glume, which bears a long awn, twisted below the knee and feathery above.