oat
oat [oat oats] BrE [əʊt] NAmE [oʊt] adjective only before noun
made from or containing ↑oats
•oat cakes
•oat bran
see also ↑oatmeal
Word Origin:
Old English āte, plural ātan, of unknown origin. Unlike other names of cereals (such as wheat, barley, etc.), oat is not an uncountable noun and may originally have denoted the individual grain, which may imply that oats were eaten in grains and not as meal.
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