awn
pronunciation
How to pronounce awn in British English:
UK [ɒn]
How to pronounce awn in American English:
US [ɒn]
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- Noun:
- slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
Word Origin
- awn (n.)
- "bristly fibers on grain of plants," c. 1300, from Old Norse ögn, from Proto-Germanic *agano (cognates: Old English egenu, Old High German agana, German Ahne, Gothic ahana), from PIE *ak-ona- (cognates: Sanskrit asani- "arrowhead," Greek akhne "husk of wheat," Latin acus "chaff," Lithuanian akuotas "beard, awn"); suffixed form of PIE root *ak- "sharp" (see acrid).
Example
- 1. Raise value of industrialization awn racoon dog especially tall .
- 2. Sacred word above the awn of the wheat : faith and life in a rural catholic community .
- 3. She is grazed by awn grass .
- 4. Lemmas with ca. 10 mm awn ; palea subequal to lemma .
- 5. The length and denseness on awn in hemudu carbonized wild rice .