OAT

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


Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, To'a, tao, toa

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

27 January 2025

FISSILE

(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂ­a Municipal de ChinchinĂĄ (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂ­var, ChinchinĂĄ, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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