awned
adjEtymology From awn + -ed.
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Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
- ... between three roses seeded and awned proper, a chevron gules, ...1836, Thomas Wright, The history and topography of ... Essex, page 654:
- […] commonly two-awned ; but in some flowers the awns are nearly obsolete; in others there are[…]1848, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, page 106:
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- […] with the roses "seeded or, awned vert”; but the introduction of these tinctures is[…]1893, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 164:
- Synonyms
- aristate