wild red oat

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   Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat

   Synonymsanimated oatAvene sterilis

   Broaderoat

Questions about wild red oat

What does wild red oat mean?

wild red oat means "Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat".

What is another word for wild red oat?

Close synonyms include animated oat, Avene sterilis. 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 red oat a common word?

wild red 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.