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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awn \Awn\, n. [OE. awn, agune, from Icel. ["o]gn, pl agnir
akin to Sw agn, Dan. avne, Goth. ahana, OHG. agana, G. agen,
ahne chaff, Gr ?, AS egla; prob. from same root as E.
acute. See 3d {Ear}. ?1.] (Bot.)
The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any
similar bristlelike appendage; arista. --Gray.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
awn
n : slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
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