Usually means: Hair-like projection on plants.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. awn: Merriam-Webster
  2. awn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. awn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. awn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. awn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Awn, awn: Wordnik
  7. awn: Wiktionary
  8. awn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. awn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. awn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. awn: Dictionary.com
  12. Awn (botany), Awn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Awn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. awn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. awn: Rhymezone
  16. Awn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. awn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. awn: FreeDictionary.org
  19. awn: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. awn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. awn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. awn: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. awn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. awn: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWN: Acronym Finder
  2. AWN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Awn: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (awn)

noun:  The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

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