单词 | oat |
释义 | oat (once / 1006 pages) n An oat is a cereal grain, the seed of a plant that grows like a tall grass in fields. Your dad might love to bake with oats. You're most likely to see the noun oat in its plural form — oats. Oats are grown for both animal feed and human consumption. If you ever eat oatmeal for breakfast, you know what an oat looks like, at least in its rolled, flake-like form. The Old English root is ate, "grain of the wild oat plant." The source of this word isn't known for sure, though it may come from the Old Norse eitill, "nodule" or "single grain." WORD FAMILYoat: oats USAGE EXAMPLESThat shattered the race record, set in 2012 by rival supermaxi Wild Oats XI, by 4 hours, 51 minutes, 52 seconds. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Bell said he was immediately aware of the misfortune that struck Wild Oats XI and handed Perpetual Loyal the race lead. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Wild Oats was more than four hours inside her race record when forced to withdraw. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') Hypo|Hyper Avena sativa, cereal oat widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains Avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grasscommon in meadows and pastures Avena barbata, slender wild oatoat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia Avene sterilis, animated oat, wild red oatMediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat cereal, cereal grass grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet 2n seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') Hyper cereal, food grain, grain foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
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