awned en · ADJ
Etymology
From awn + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
... between three roses seeded and awned proper, a chevron gules, ...
1836, Thomas Wright, The history and topography of ... Essex, page 654:[…] commonly two-awned ; but in some flowers the awns are nearly obsolete; in others there are[…]
1848, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, page 106:[…] with the roses "seeded or, awned vert”; but the introduction of these tinctures is[…]
1893, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 164: