English noun: oat |
1. | oat (plant) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | cereal, cereal grass |
|
| Narrower (hyponym) | animated oat, Avena barbata, Avena fatua, Avena sativa, Avene sterilis, cereal oat, slender wild oat, wild oat, wild oat grass, wild red oat |
|
| Member meronym | Avena, genus Avena |
|
2. | oat (food) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | cereal, food grain, grain |
|
| Part meronym | Avena sativa, cereal oat |
|
| Domain usage | plural, plural form |
|