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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. Beard (companion) - Wikipedia

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    The titular talent agent is the beard, pretending to date Tina, a single woman who is actually having an affair with married singer Lou Canova, Danny's client. By posing as Tina's date, Danny can bring her to Lou's performance without drawing attention from Lou's suspicious wife. The term "beard" is a running gag, used four times (e.g.

  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. 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 ]

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Truce term - Wikipedia

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    Truce terms are recorded as having been used in the following circumstances; being out of breath, having a stitch, a shoelace being undone, fear of clothes being damaged, needing to go to the lavatory, checking the time, wanting to discuss or clarify rules during a fight or game, or one combatant wanting to remove their spectacles or jacket before continuing.

  9. Barley - Wikipedia

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    The Old English word for barley was bere. [4] This survives in the north of Scotland as bere; it is used for a strain of six-row barley grown there. [5] Modern English barley derives from the Old English adjective bærlic, meaning "of barley". [3] [6] The word barn derives from Old English bere-aern meaning "barley-store". [3]