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

Spike short, dense, strict and rigid, usually tinged with violet or purple; spikelets 3–5-flowered; glumes conspicuously 5-nerved, rather abruptly narrowed into a cusp or short awn.

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

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

Culms 8–15´ high, weak; leaves flat, rather wide; panicle of few spreading branches; awn stout, twice longer than the nerveless truncate ciliolate-denticulate glume.

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