Awn: alternatives and connections

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…

bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.

A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

See Bristle.

A bristle or bristles.

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…

To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

of Bristle

small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail

of Bristle

To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.