OATMEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oatmeal mean? 

• OATMEAL (noun)
  The noun OATMEAL has 2 senses:

1. porridge made of rolled oats

2. meal made from rolled or ground oats

  Familiarity information: OATMEAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OATMEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Porridge made of rolled oats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

burgoo; oatmeal

Hypernyms ("oatmeal" is a kind of...):

porridge (soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Meal made from rolled or ground oats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

oatmeal; rolled oats

Hypernyms ("oatmeal" is a kind of...):

meal (coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse)

Holonyms ("oatmeal" is a substance of...):

porridge (soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick)

 Context examples 

A human nutrition study reaffirms the health benefits of substituting refined-grain products like white bread with whole-grain foods like whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, barley, rye, and brown or wild rice.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Upon application to the skin, colloidal oatmeal cream forms a protective barrier and thereby prevents water loss, provides moisture to the skin and protects the skin from damage.

(Colloidal Oatmeal Cream, NCI Thesaurus)

Colloidal oatmeal, whole oats milled to a fine powder, with anti-pruritic activity.

(Oatmeal Powder, NCI Thesaurus)

Calamine lotions and oatmeal baths can help with itching.

(Chickenpox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

"Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Foods high in magnesium include almonds, bananas, beans, broccoli, brown rice, cashews, egg yolk, fish oil, flaxseed, green vegetables, milk, mushrooms, other nuts, oatmeal, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, sunflower seeds, sweet corn, tofu, and whole grains (see: Foods, by content of Magnesium, Mg)

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Oatmeal powder, especially when added to a warm bath, is used to provide temporary relief of itching and irritation caused by insect bites, eczema, sun burns, reactions to poisonous plants and various other skin rashes and allergies.

(Oatmeal Powder, NCI Thesaurus)