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What does oat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word oat? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
  2. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
  3. (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
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Evergreen grasses, such as sedge, blue oat grass, and some species of feather grass, which only need renewing every 2 to 3 years.
Look in my kitchen cabinets today, and you'll find oat bran and couscous and whole-wheat pitas.
If early spring crops such as oat are planted, blue mustard must be killed before planting with tillage or a contact herbicide.
A strategically placed clump of blue oat grass can add a cool touch to the mid-summer garden.
The seedhead of slender wild oat is very attenuated and from it projects a long awn that looks like an antenna from a large insect.
If they contain a carbohydrate, it's usually oat bran, wheat bran or inulin.

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