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Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Matamata.

The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [Scot.]

Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

ves. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

niceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

An old man. Shak.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

An old man; a graybeard.

es, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom cor…

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.

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

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

Without awns or beard.

Having awns; bearded.

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.