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Definition of 'oat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) oat
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible grain.

2.  oat
Usu., oats. the grain of this plant.

3.  oat
any of several other plants of the genus Avena, as the wild oat.

4.  oat
Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.

5.  oat
to feel or show giddy animation.

6.  oat
to have a strong sense of one's own power.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME ote, OE āte)

Definition of 'oat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) oat
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

2. (noun) oat
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

Definition of 'oat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) oat
a well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense

2. (noun) oat
a musical pipe made of oat straw

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