oat has definitions from the fields of food,botany
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[ noun ] (botany) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

With these completed and ice gone from the St._Peter's_River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat , 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big_Stone_Lake , across into Lake_Traverse , and down the Red .

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[ noun ] (food) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

Related terms

grain cereal_oat plural

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