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oats

  1. plural of oat

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oats sg or pl

  1. A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).
    Oats are in the north corner of the farm.
    Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.
  2. Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food.
    Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.
    Oats are good for you.

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For millennia, oats were wrongly believed to be a degenerate form of another grain. This contempt may underlie Samuel Johnson's infamous definition in his 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language

 

A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

 

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