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oat 音标拼音: ['ot] n. 燕麦,麦片粥 燕麦,麦片粥 oat n 1: annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder ( referred to primarily in the plural: ` oats') 2: seed of the annual grass Avena sativa ( spoken of primarily in the plural as ` oats') 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. [ 1913 Webster] |
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