Oat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various grasses of the genus Avena, especially A. sativa, widely cultivated for their edible grains.
  • n. The grain of any of these plants, used as food and fodder.
  • n. Archaic A musical pipe made of an oat straw.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
  • n. Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants.
  • n. The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
  • n. A musical pipe made of oat straw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cereal plant, Avena sativa, or its seed: commonly used in the plural in a collective sense.
  • n. Any species of Avena. The wild oat of Europe, A. fatua, is a weed of cultivation in many places; in California, where it abounds, it is extensively utilized as hay. The animal, fly, or hygrometric oat, A. sterilis, native in Barbary, has two long, strong, much-bent awns, which twist and untwist with changes of moisture, and so become a means of locomotion. Various species are more or less available for pasture.
  • n. A musical pipe of oat-straw; a shepherd's pipe; hence, pastoral song. See oaten pipe, under oaten.
  • n. Bromus secalinus.
  • n. Pharus latifolius.
  • To feed with oats; feed oats to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
  • n. annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
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    food grain    grain    cereal   
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