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AVENA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Avena mean?
• AVENA (noun)
The noun AVENA has 1 sense:
1. oats
Familiarity information: AVENA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Avena; genus Avena
Hypernyms ("Avena" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Avena"):
oat (annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: 'oats'))
Holonyms ("Avena" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
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