Oat Definition

ōt
noun
A hardy, widely grown cereal grass (Avena sativa)
Webster's New World
Any of various related grasses (genus Avena), esp. the wild oats.
Webster's New World
The edible grain of this grass.
Webster's New World
A simple musical pipe made of an oat stalk.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Oat

Noun

Singular:
oat
Plural:
oats

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Origin of Oat

  • Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-Germanic *aitÇ­ (“swelling"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eid- (“to swell"). For sense development, compare Ancient Greek oídax 'unripe fig' from oîdos 'swelling, tumor'.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English ote from Old English āte

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Oat Sentence Examples

  • In the cultivated oat it may be wanting, and if present it is not so stiff and is seldom bent.

  • In the last-named family the single morphological species Erysiphe graminis is found growing on the cereals, barley, oat, wheat, rye and a number of wild grasses (such as Poa, Bromus, Dactylis).

  • The oat crop was 10,886,000 bushels.

  • Parkinson tells us that in his time (early in the 17th century) the naked oat was sown in sundry places, but "nothing so frequent" as the common sort.

  • Besides the use of the straw when cut up and mixed with other food for fodder, the oat grain constitutes an important food for both man and beast.

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