wild red oat

/waɪld rɛd oʊt/
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Definitions of wild red oat
  1. noun
    Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
    synonyms: Avene sterilis, animated oat
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    type of:
    oat
    annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
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