oat meaning
Noun: oat owt
- Annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: 'oats')
- Seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as 'oats')
Derived forms: oats
See also: oaten
Type of: cereal, cereal grass, food grain, grain
Part of: Avena, Avena sativa, cereal oat, genus Avena
Encyclopedia: Oat
[Medicine]
A plant species of the family POACEAE that is widely cultivated for its edible seeds.
Examples
More: Next- he sowed all his wild oats before he married.
- oats have been notorious for disease problems.
- he has been a bit off his oats since his illness.
- the farmers here grow wheat, oats and clover.
- wheat and oats are of the same family, but of different genera.