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oats 音標拼音: ['ots] n. 燕麥 燕麥 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] 89 Moby Thesaurus words for " oats": Bengal grass, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, alfilaria, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, bird seed, black bent, bluegrass, bog grass, bran, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, canary grass, cane, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, forage, four- leaved grass, grain, grasses, hassock grass, hay, horsetail, little quaking grass, lovegrass, maize, mash, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meal, millet, myrtle grass, paddy, palm- leaved grass, pampas grass, papyrus, pasturage, pasture, peppergrass, pet food, provender, reed, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, scratch, scratch feed, scutch, sedge, sesame, sesame grass, silage, slops, sorghum, straw, striped grass, sugar cane, swill, switch grass, sword grass, tufted hair grass, wheat, wild oats, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia |
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