wild oats

Questions about wild oats

What is another word for wild oats?

It depends which wild oats you mean. In the sense “any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers”, the synonyms are bellwort, merry bells. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wild oats?

WordNet records no antonym for wild oats. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wild oats come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wild oats

• Full entry for wild oatsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wild oatsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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