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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 meronymAvena, 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 meronymAvena sativa, cereal oat


Domain usageplural, plural form









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