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DEFINITIONS OF: oat

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n annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

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Avena sativa, cereal oat
widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grass
common in meadows and pastures
Avena barbata, slender wild oat
oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oat
Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

n seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

Type of:
cereal, food grain, grain
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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