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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers;
[syn: bellwort, merry bells, wild oats]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wild oats n 1: any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers [syn: bellwort, merry bells, wild oats]