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oats
We have found lemma(root) word of oats : oat.
Definitions
[əʊt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an Old World cereal plant with a loose, branched cluster of florets, cultivated in cool climates and widely used for animal feed
- an oat stem used as a musical pipe by shepherds, especially in pastoral or bucolic poetry
Phrases:
- feel one's oats
- get one's oats
- sow one's wild oats
Origin
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Old English āte, plural ātan, of unknown origin. Unlike other names of cereals (such as wheat, barley, etc.), oat is not a mass noun and may originally have denoted the individual grain, which may imply that oats were eaten in grains and not as meal
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