awn

English - Turkish

Definition of awn in English Turkish dictionary

kılçık

diken

(Askeri) Otomatik Çalışır Meteororloji Ağı (Automated Weather Network)

arpa kılçıkları

sorguçsuz

awny dikenli

{i} başak kılçığı

awns of barley arpa dikenleri

sakallı

kılçıklı

sorguç

awnless kılçıksız

Related Terms

having a short beard or awn

kısa sakallı veya kılçık sahip

English - English

Definition of awn in English English dictionary

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista

{n} the beard of corn or grass

a narrow, terminal bristle

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc

A slender bristle of a grass floret

{i} bristle on a plant (Botany)

experimental side project of Eric Allen, bass player of Apples in Stereo and Perry Weissman 3 Has released one CD on the Perhaps Transparent label See also: Eric Allen, Apples in Stereo, Perry Weissman 3, Shrat Field Recordings

A bristle characteristic of the spikelets in some grasses

A slender, stiff, bristle-like extension of a plant part, such as the beard on wheat See drawing of parts of a grass plant

A bristle-shaped appendage, especially on grass seeds or grains

Automated Weather Network; Air Force high-speed weather data communications network

or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista

A stiff bristle, especially on the grains of cereals and grasses

a stiff and bristle-like appendage, often at the apex of a leaf, sepal or petal The sepals of Passiflora coccinea end in a awn

slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

Related Terms

An awn

arista

Etymology

[ 'on ] (noun.) 12th century. Middle English aw(u)ne, agune, agene, from Old Danish aghn (compare modern avne), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō 'chaff' (compare Old English ægnan, Frisian/Dutch agen, German Ahne, Agen), from Proto-Indo-European *ak̑anā (compare Old Latin agna 'ear of wheat', Lithuanian ašnìs 'edge, blade', Czech osina, Ancient Greek ákaina 'spike, prick', ákanos 'pine-thistle', Sanskrit aśáni 'thunderbolt, arrow tip'), from *h₂eḱ 'sharp'. More at edge.

Tenses

awning, awned