avena barbata

1. 1.

   oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia

   Synonymsslender wild oat

   Broaderoat

Questions about avena barbata

What does avena barbata mean?

avena barbata means "oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia".

What is another word for avena barbata?

Close synonyms include slender wild oat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avena barbata a common word?

avena barbata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.