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 […]

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