[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

oat \oat\ =ot, n.; pl. oats =ots. oe. ote, ate, as.
   =ata, akin to fries. oat. of uncertain origin.
   1. bot. a well-known cereal grass avena sativa, and its
      edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in
      the plural and in a collective sense.
      1913 webster

   2. a musical pipe made of oat straw. obs. --milton.
      1913 webster

   animated oats or animal oats bot., a grass avena
      sterilis much like oats, but with a long spirally
      twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
      moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
      automatic motion.

   oat fowl zool., the snow bunting; -- so called from its
      feeding on oats. prov. eng.

   oat grass bot., the name of several grasses more or less
      resembling oats, as danthonia spicata, danthonia
      sericea, and arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in
      parts of the united states.

   to feel one's oats,
      a to be conceited or self-important. slang
      b to feel lively and energetic.

   to sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
      --thackeray.

   wild oats bot., a grass avena fatua much resembling
      oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
      cultivated oats.
      1913 webster
see also:
oats avena sativa animated oats animal oats avena sterilis oat fowl 
oat grass danthonia spicata danthonia sericea arrhenatherum avenaceum to feel one's oats 
to sow one's wild oats wild oats avena fatua 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wild oats
     n : any of various plants of the genus uvularia having yellowish
         drooping bell-shaped flowers syn: bellwort, merry
         bells
see also:
bellwort merry bells 

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