cereal oat

1. 1.

   widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains

   SynonymsAvena sativa

   Broaderoat

   Partsoat

Questions about cereal oat

What does cereal oat mean?

cereal oat means "widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible grains".

What is another word for cereal oat?

Close synonyms include Avena sativa. 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 cereal oat a common word?

cereal oat 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.