oat : Idioms & Phrases

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animated oat

  • noun Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
    animated oat; Avene sterilis.
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cereal oat

  • noun widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
    Avena sativa.
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false oat

  • noun coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
    Arrhenatherum elatius; French rye; false oat; evergreen grass; tall meadow grass.
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oat cell carcinoma

  • noun highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas
    small cell carcinoma.
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rolled oats

  • noun meal made from rolled or ground oats
    oatmeal.
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slender wild oat

  • noun oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
    Avena barbata.
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sow one's oats

  • verb live promiscuously and self-indulgently
    sow one's oats.
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sow one's wild oats

  • verb live promiscuously and self-indulgently
    sow one's oats.
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Swine oat

  • (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine.
Webster 1913

tall oat grass

  • noun coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
    Arrhenatherum elatius; French rye; false oat; evergreen grass; tall meadow grass.
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To sow one's wild oats

  • . See under Oat.
Webster 1913

water oat

Wa"ter oat`
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  1. Indian rice. See under Rice.
Webster 1913

Wild oat

  • noun common in meadows and pastures
    wild oat grass; Avena fatua; wild oat.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass (Arrhenatherum avenaceum). (b) See Wild oats, under Oat.
Webster 1913

wild oat grass

  • noun common in meadows and pastures
    wild oat grass; Avena fatua; wild oat.
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wild oats

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers
    bellwort; merry bells.
  • noun common in meadows and pastures
    wild oat grass; Avena fatua; wild oat.
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wild red oat

  • noun Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
    animated oat; Avene sterilis.
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