1. Noun
A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
2. Noun
A musical pipe made of oat straw.
3. Noun
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: ‘oats’)
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
4. Noun
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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