awn

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A thin film it leaves behind makes the awn an even better spot for condensation, making water collection yet more efficient.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2016

He at one point invoked the excesses of “King Jahge,” a tyrant who “made judges dependent awn his will alone.”

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015

Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Furnished with an awn, or long bristleÐshaped tip; bearded.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Glumes much shorter than the somewhat remote flowers; flowering glume and palet strongly fringe-bearded, the glume 2-cleft at the summit, its mid-nerve produced into an awn between the truncate or awn-pointed divisions.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa