wild oat

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   common in meadows and pastures

   Synonymswild oat grassAvena fatua

   Broaderoat

Questions about wild oat

What does wild oat mean?

wild oat means "common in meadows and pastures".

What is another word for wild oat?

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

wild oat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.