AVENA SATIVA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains

Synonyms:

Avena sativa; cereal oat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Avena sativa" is a kind of...):

oat (annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: 'oats'))

Meronyms (parts of "Avena sativa"):

oat (seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as 'oats'))

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