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# oat

noun (oats — usually plural; oat as an adjective: oat milk)

«oat» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A kind of cereal plant grown for its grain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#m1)
2. (oats) The grains of this plant, used to make porridge, oatcakes, flapjacks and muesli, and to feed horses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#m2)

### In the lessons

In health and food lessons, oats are a healthy wholegrain food that gives slow energy. In science, oats are a crop that grows in cool, damp places. Phrases: «porridge oats», «rolled oats», «oat milk», «sow your wild oats».

### Examples

- I have porridge oats for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x1)
- Horses love oats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x2)
- We made flapjacks with oats and honey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x3)
- Oats grow well in Scotland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x4)
- My friend drinks oat milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x5)
- Oats keep you full until lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x6)
- "Look," said the Wolf, "here's a fine field of oats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/#x7)

### Note

Usually used in the plural: «oats». As an adjective it is «oat»: «oat milk», «oat biscuits». Oatmeal (US) = porridge oats.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «oat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«oat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/oat.html) on Mova free.