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  2. Awn (botany) - Wikipedia

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    An awn is a hairy or bristle-like growth on a plant. On the seeds of grasses such as barley or rye, they form foxtails which assist seed dispersal by being barbed and so sticking to passing animals. Also, the awns may twist or curl as they are wetted and dry out and this action can make fallen seeds walk until they fall into a crevice into ...

  3. Barley - Wikipedia

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    Barley, made into malt, is a key ingredient in beer and whisky production. [81] Two-row barley is traditionally used in German and English beers. Six-row barley was traditionally used in US beers, but both varieties are in common usage now. [82] Distilled from green beer, [83] Scottish and Irish whisky are made primarily from barley. [81]

  4. Glossary of Dorset dialect words - Wikipedia

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    The beard of barley Spotter (Great or lesser) Spotted Woodpecker Spume Come, semen Squitters Diarrhoea in cattle Stare Starling Stiver To stiffen up much as an angry dogs hairs Stumpy To walk with short stamoing steps Sweethearts Goose grass Sweven A dream T Taffle To tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by weather Tarble Tolerable Tardle

  5. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Prefix meaning "position away from". [1] abaxial Surface of an organ facing away from the organ's axis, e.g. the lower surface of a lateral organ such as a leaf or petal. [2] Contrast adaxial. abort To abandon development of a structure or organ. [3] abscission Natural shedding of an organ that is mature or aged, as of a ripe fruit or an old ...

  6. Hordeum distichon - Wikipedia

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    Hordeum distichon, the common barley or two-rowed barley, is a cultigen of barley, family Poaceae. It is native to Iraq , and is widely grown throughout temperate regions of the world. [ 1 ] Some authorities consider it a subspecies of six-rowed barley, Hordeum vulgare . [ 2 ]

  7. Hordeum pusillum - Wikipedia

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    Hordeum pusillum, also known as little barley, is an annual grass native to most of the United States and southwestern Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It arrived via multiple long-distance dispersals of a southern South American species of Hordeum about one million years ago. [ 3 ]

  8. Ear (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Three unripe ears (of barley, wheat, and rye): each has many awns (bristles) An ear is the grain-bearing tip part of the stem of a cereal plant, such as wheat or maize (corn). [1] It can also refer to "a prominent lobe in some leaves." [2] The ear is a spike, consisting of a central stem on which tightly packed rows of flowers grow.

  9. Truce term - Wikipedia

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    Crossed fingers are a common gesture accompanying truce terms in the UK, New Zealand and the US.. A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.