In one exotic genus, Aristida, the awn is compound, having three forks or branches; another exotic genus, Pappophorum, is remarkable in having the flowering glume armed with a dozen or more awns.
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Awn
//ɔːn//
Synonyms for "awn"
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60 translations across 48 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- ахәҵәы́ noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀθήρ noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Arabic
1 entries- سَفَاة noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qılçıq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡылсыҡ noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Bulgarian
1 entries- осил noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Chechen
1 entries- дитт noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 芒 noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Chuvash
1 entries- хылчӑк noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qılçıq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Czech
1 entries- osina noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Dutch
1 entries- kafnaald noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Esperanto
1 entries- aristo noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Estonian
1 entries- ohe noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Finnish
1 entries- vihne noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
French
1 entries- barbe noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Galician
3 entries- aresta noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- argana noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- coaño noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Georgian
1 entries- ფხა noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
German
1 entries- Granne noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Greek
2 entries- άγανο noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- αθέρας noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Hungarian
1 entries- toklász noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Icelandic
1 entries- týta noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Ingrian
1 entries- oas noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Irish
1 entries- colg noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Italian
2 entries- arista noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- resta noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Kazakh
1 entries- қылқан noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Korean
1 entries- 까끄라기 noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Kumyk
1 entries- къылчыкъ noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кылкан noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Latin
1 entries- arista noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Macedonian
1 entries- о́сил noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Norwegian
1 entries- snerp noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سونكو noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Persian
2 entries- تزه noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- دازه noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Polish
2 entries- ość noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- wąs noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Portuguese
1 entries- arista noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Russian
1 entries- ость noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Salar
1 entries- qılçıq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Slovak
4 entries- fúzy noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- osina noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- ostina noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- osť noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кылган noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Spanish
1 entries- arista noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Swedish
1 entries- borst noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Tatar
1 entries- кылчык noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Turkish
1 entries- kılçık noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Turkmen
1 entries- gylçyk noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Uyghur
1 entries- قىلتىرىق noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Uzbek
3 entries- qil-tiriq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- qiltanoq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
- qiltiq noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
Welsh
1 entries- col noun (the bristle or beard of certain plants)
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