| 单词 | black oat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack oat black oat n. any of several dark-hulled kinds of cultivated oat; esp. the European diploid species Avena strigosa, now chiefly grown for animal fodder and as a cover crop.Recorded earliest as an element in field names denoting land where black oats have been sown. ΚΠ c1200 in A. H. Smith Place-names Westmorland (1967) I. 49 Blachateridding. 1450 in K. Cameron Place-names Derbyshire (1959) II. 435 Blakeoteacre. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ix There be .iii. maner of otes, that is to say red otes, blake otes, and rough otes. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads v. sig. L Two horse to euery one, That eat white Barley and blacke Otes, and do no good at all. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. xiii. 74 Nor does the Black-oat peel the Ground, so much as the White-oat does. 1880 A. J. Warden Angus or Forfarshire iv. xii. 182 In former times the bearded variety, commonly called black oats, was most largely sown, but they have been supplanted..by the common oats. 1910 F. L. Stevens & J. G. Hall Dis. Econ. Plants 350 In California black oats are reputed to be less subject to rust than white oats. 2001 New Scientist 3 Feb. 17/2 They fight weeds by planting winter crops such as black oats. < as lemmas |
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