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oat

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊt/

The English word “oat” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
  2. Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
  3. The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
  4. A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
  5. The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”). Cognates * Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), West Frisian oat (“wild oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“wild oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat (“oat”),…

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