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Noun
wild oats pl (plural only)
- Oats of non-cultivated species of Avena, a genus of grasses.
- Chasmanthium latifolium, a grass, Indian woodoats
- Species of Uvularia, the bellworts.
- Species of Aegilops, goatgrass.
- (archaic) A rake.
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