slovodefinícia
Oat grass
(gcide)
Oat \Oat\ ([=o]t), n.; pl. Oats ([=o]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS.
[=a]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its
edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in
the plural and in a collective sense.
[1913 Webster]

2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

Animated oats or Animal oats (Bot.), A grass ({Avena
sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally
twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
automatic motion.

Oat fowl (Zool.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its
feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]

Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, {Danthonia
sericea}, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in
parts of the United States.

To feel one's oats,
(a) to be conceited or self-important. [Slang]
(b) to feel lively and energetic.

To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
--Thackeray.

Wild oats (Bot.), a grass (Avena fatua) much resembling
oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
cultivated oats.
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podobné slovodefinícia
goat grass
(encz)
goat grass, n:
tall oat grass
(encz)
tall oat grass, n:
wild oat grass
(encz)
wild oat grass, n:
goat grass
(wn)
goat grass
n 1: European grass naturalized as a weed in North America;
sharp-pointed seeds cause injury when eaten by livestock
[syn: goat grass, Aegilops triuncalis]
tall oat grass
(wn)
tall oat grass
n 1: 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, {false
oat}, French rye, Arrhenatherum elatius]
wild oat grass
(wn)
wild oat grass
n 1: common in meadows and pastures [syn: wild oat, {wild oat
grass}, Avena fatua]

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