oats

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊts/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /oʊts/ (California) IPA(key): /oʊts/, (California Vowel Shift) [əʊts], (California Vowel Shift) [ɛʊts] (General Australian) IPA(key): /æɔts/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /æʊts/ Rhymes: -əʊts === Noun === oats plural of oat === Noun === oats sg or pl A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa). Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food. ==== Usage notes ==== 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 ==== Synonyms ==== haver ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === ASOT, Tsao, taos, SOTA, Sota, OTAs, toas, Taos, ATOs, stoa, tosa, as to, oast, Sato