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Definition: oat
oat
n 1: annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food
and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
2: seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily
in the plural as `oats')
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Oat
Oat
\Oat\ ([=o]t), n.; pl.
Oats ([=o]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS.
[=a]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
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2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Animated oats or
Animal oats (Bot.), A grass (
Avena sterilis
) much like oats, but with a long spirally
twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
automatic motion.
Oat fowl (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from
its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]
Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
resembling oats, as
Danthonia spicata,
Danthonia sericea
, and
Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in
parts of the United States.
To feel one's oats,
(a) to be conceited or self-important. [Slang]
(b) to feel lively and energetic.
To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
--Thackeray.
Wild oats (Bot.), a grass (
Avena fatua) much resembling
oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
cultivated oats.
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