avena fatua

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   common in meadows and pastures

   Synonymswild oatwild oat grass

   Broaderoat

Questions about avena fatua

What does avena fatua mean?

avena fatua means "common in meadows and pastures".

What is another word for avena fatua?

Close synonyms include wild oat, wild oat grass. 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 fatua a common word?

avena fatua 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.