Crossword-Solution: AWNLESS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The slopes are extensively cultivated with black awnless unirrigated rice, and poor crops of _Coix,_ protected from the birds by scarecrows of lines stretched across the fields, bearing tassels and tufts of fern, shaken by boys.

The solitary flowering glume is chartaceous, awnless, 3- to 5-nerved, the lateral nerves forming the thickened margin of the glume.

The first glume is coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, convex more or less, marginally winged above the middle, truncate or two-cuspidate at the apex and awnless.

The _lower spikelets_ at the very base of the inflorescence are awnless and contain only two male flowers, whereas those above in the inflorescence are awned and contain one male flower and one hermaphrodite or female flower.

The _first glume_ in the awnless spikelets is coriaceous, oblong, cuneate, very sparsely hairy or glabrous, shorter than the second glume, 7-nerved, 5-toothed at the apex, two teeth being broader and shorter and three sharper and longer.