slender wild oat

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   oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia

   SynonymsAvena barbata

   Broaderoat

Questions about slender wild oat

What does slender wild oat mean?

slender wild oat means "oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia".

What is another word for slender wild oat?

Close synonyms include Avena barbata. 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 slender wild oat a common word?

slender wild 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.