oat

1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa;
   Grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') (synset 112130344)
   is a type of: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
   subtypes:

   • avena sativa, cereal oat - widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains
   • avena fatua, wild oat, wild oat grass - common in meadows and pastures
   • avena barbata, slender wild oat - oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
   • animated oat, avene sterilis, wild red oat - Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
   belongs to: avena, genus avena - oats
2. Seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') (synset 107820128)
   domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
   is a type of: cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
   is a part of: avena sativa, cereal oat - widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains

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