What is an awn?

What is an awn? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
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Bear, my dearest friend, bear is all they have, and wonderment it is to me that they ever see an awn of it.
They also report the absence of periclinal cell divisions at the base of the mutant awn.
The absence of awn, rachilla, and basal hairs distinguishes Agrostis from Aira.
The first glume is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.
He's got his awn habits, indeed, but they are manifold, changeable, almost elusive.
When atmospheric humidity changes again and the awn untwists, the spikelet is held in the ground by the callus hairs.

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