FALSE OAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false oat mean? 

• FALSE OAT (noun)
  The noun FALSE OAT has 1 sense:

1. coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

  Familiarity information: FALSE OAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE OAT (noun)

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Meaning:

Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass

Hypernyms ("false oat" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("false oat" is a member of...):

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)