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Word entry · 3 letters

oat

Best crossword clue

"Cereal grain"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /ˈəʊt/Part of speech nounSorted aotStarts with OEnds with T2 cluesCommon crossword word
1O2A3T

Definitions

  1. seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”).

Used in a sentence

  • The oat stalks made good straw.
  • The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
  • World trade in oat is increasing.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Cereal grain3 letters
02Horse feed3 letters

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