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29 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. oat
  2. oat cell
  3. oat grass
  4. oat nematode
  5. oat opera
  6. animated oat
  7. Australian oat
  8. black oat
  9. black oat grass
  10. downy oat grass
  11. false oat grass
  12. meadow oat grass
  13. naked oat
  14. pin oat
  15. red oat
  16. sand oat
  17. sea oat
  18. seaside oat
  19. short oat
  20. side oat
  21. swamp oat grass
  22. tall oat grass
  23. Tartarian oat
  24. water oat
  25. wild oat
  26. wild oat grass
  27. wild-oat kicker
  28. wild red oat
  29. yellow oat grass

oat

noun, often attributive \ˈōt\

Definition of OAT

1
a : any of several grasses (genus Avena); especially : a widely cultivated cereal grass (A. sativa)
b : a crop or plot of the oat; also : the seed of an oat —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction
2
archaic : a reed instrument made of an oat straw
— feel one's oats
: to act in a newly self-confident and often self-important manner
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Origin of OAT

Middle English ote, from Old English āte
First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with OAT

bloat, boat, coat, cote, dote, float, gloat, goat, groat, haute, moat, mote, note, quote, rote, shoat, stoat, throat, tote, vote

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