awned

English

Etymology

awn +‎ -ed

Adjective

awned (not comparable)

1. Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
   • 1836, Thomas Wright, The history and topography of ... Essex, page 654:

     ... between three roses seeded and awned proper, a chevron gules, ...

   • 1848, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, page 106:

     […] commonly two-awned ; but in some flowers the awns are nearly obsolete; in others there are […]

   • 1893, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 164:

     […] with the roses "seeded or, awned vert”; but the introduction of these tinctures is […]

Synonyms

• aristate

Derived terms

• awnedness
• unawned

 

Anagrams

• dewan, wande, waned