oat
Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
Example
“The oat stalks made good straw.”
Other meanings
Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
“The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.”
The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
A kind of
- cereal
Kinds of oat
- cereal oat
- wild oat
- slender wild oat
- wild red oat
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "āte".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “oat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.