oat

noun

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

   Less specific

   • cereal, cereal grass

   More specific

   • cereal oat, Avena sativa, wild oat, wild oat grass, Avena fatua, slender wild oat, Avena barbata, wild red oat, animated oat, Avene sterilis

   Member of

   • Avena, genus Avena

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

   Less specific

   • grain, food grain, cereal

   Part of

   • cereal oat, Avena sativa