oat

adjective
🔊/əʊt/
🔊/əʊt/
[only before noun]
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  1. made from or containing oats燕麦制的;含燕麦的
    • oat cakes燕麦饼
    • oat bran燕麦麸
    see also oatcake, oatmeal
    Word OriginOld English āte, plural ātan, of unknown origin. Unlike other names of cereals (such as wheat, barley, etc.), oat is not an uncountable noun and may originally have denoted the individual grain, which may imply that oats were eaten in grains and not as meal.