Definitions for OAT
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
oat(n.)
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible grain.
Category: Plants
Usu., oats. the grain of this plant.
Category: Plants
any of several other plants of the genus Avena, as the wild oat.
Category: Plants
Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.
Idioms for oat:
feel one's oats, to feel or show giddy animation. to have a strong sense of one's own power.
Category: Idiom
Origin of oat:
bef. 900; ME ote, OE āte
Princeton's WordNet
oat(noun)
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
oat(noun)
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
Wiktionary
oat(Noun)
A widely cultivated cereal grass, Avena sativa.
The oat stalks made good straw.
oat(Noun)
Any of several similar grain plants.
The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats,
oat(Noun)
The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
Origin: ote, from ate, from aitōn (compare Old High German eiz, Dutch etter, East Frisian eitel, Old Norse eitill), from h₁eid- (compare Latin aemidus, Old Church Slavonic ядъ, Ancient Greek οἰδέω, Old Armenian այտնում, այտ, Sanskrit इन्दु. For sense development, compare Ancient Greek oídax 'unripe fig' from oîdos 'swelling, tumor'.
Webster Dictionary
Oat(noun)
a well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense
Oat(noun)
a musical pipe made of oat straw
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