oat-grass

  • 71oat — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English ote, from Old English āte Date: before 12th century 1. a. any of several grasses (genus Avena); especially a widely cultivated cereal grass (A. sativa) b. a crop or plot of the oat; also the …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 72oat — oatlike, adj. /oht/, n. 1. a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed. 2. Usually, oats. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals. 3. any of several plants of the same genus, as …

    Universalium

  • 73oat — noun /əʊt/ a) A widely cultivated cereal grass, Avena sativa. The oat stalks made good straw. b) Any of several similar grain plants. The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats …

    Wiktionary

  • 74oat — (ōt), n. 1) pln a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible grain 2) pln Usu., oats. the grain of this plant 3) pln any of several other plants of the genus Avena, as the wild oat 4) archaic a musical pipe made of an oat straw • feel… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 75oat — əʊt n. cereal grass cultivated for its seed; seed of the oat plant, oats …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 76wild oat — noun common in meadows and pastures • Syn: ↑wild oat grass, ↑Avena fatua • Hypernyms: ↑oat * * * noun 1. a. : a wild grass of the genus Avena: as …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 77evergreen 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 • Syn: ↑tall oat grass, ↑tall meadow grass, ↑false oat, ↑French rye, ↑Arrhenatherum… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 78false 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 • Syn: ↑tall oat grass, ↑tall meadow grass, ↑evergreen grass, ↑French rye, ↑Arrhenatherum …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 79tall meadow 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 • Syn: ↑tall oat grass, ↑evergreen grass, ↑false oat, ↑French rye, ↑Arrhenatherum elatius …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 80red-oat — trikuokė temeda statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Miglinių šeimos dekoratyvinis, pašarinis augalas (Themeda triandra), paplitęs Afrikoje, pietų Azijoje ir Australijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Themeda triandra angl. kangaroo grass; red grass; red… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)