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Avena

noun

oats

• Syn: ↑genus Avena

• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus

• Member Holonyms:

↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family

• Member Meronyms: ↑oat

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\\əˈvēnə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, oats; akin to Lithuanian aviža oats, Russian oves

: a genus of widely distributed grasses (family Gramineae) having a loosely paniculate inflorescence, lemmas 2-toothed and usually awned near the apex, and deeply furrowed grains enclosed in the glumes and sometimes adherent to them — see oat

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Avena /a-vēˈnə/

noun

The oat genus of grasses

ORIGIN: L avēna oats

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avenaceous /av-i-nāˈshəs/ adjective

1. Of the nature of oats

2. Belonging to the Avena genus

Useful english dictionary. 2012.