oat
(noun) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)
oat
(noun) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: ‘oats’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
oat (countable and uncountable, plural oats)
(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
(usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, To'a, tao, toa
Source: Wiktionary
4 November 2024
(noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); “economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
