Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "wild oat" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF WILD OAT

wild oat play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WILD OAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wild oat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WILD OAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wild oat

Avena

Avena is a genus of 33 species in the grass family Poaceae. Collectively known as the oats, they include some species which have been cultivated for thousands of years as a food source for humans and livestock. They are widespread throughout Europe, Asia and northwest Africa. Several species have become naturalized in many parts of the world, and are regarded as invasive weeds where they compete with crop production. All oats have edible seeds, though they are small and hard to harvest in most species. ▪ See Oat for a more detailed discussion of the oat as a food source.

Definition of wild oat in the English dictionary

The definition of wild oat in the dictionary is any of several temperate annual grasses of the genus Avena, esp A. fatua, that grow as weeds and have long bristles on their flower spikes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WILD OAT

wild ginger
wild horse
wild hyacinth
wild indigo
wild Irishman
wild lettuce
wild liquorice
wild man
wild marjoram
wild mustard
wild oats
wild olive
wild pansy
wild parsley
wild parsnip
wild pear
wild radish
wild rice
wild rose
wild rubber

WORDS THAT END LIKE WILD OAT

afloat
boat
coat
deep throat
fishing boat
float
goat
have by the throat
houseboat
in the same boat
miss the boat
oat
on the coat
overcoat
petticoat
sailboat
steamboat
the Goat
throat
trench coat

Synonyms and antonyms of wild oat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wild oat» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF WILD OAT

Find out the translation of wild oat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wild oat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wild oat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

野燕麦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

avena loca
570 millions of speakers

English

wild oat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जंगली जई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشوفان البري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

овсюг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aveia selvagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বনজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

folle avoine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oat liar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hafer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

野生カラスムギ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

야생 귀리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oat liar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

yến mạch hoang dã
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்டு ஓட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वन्य ओट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yulaf yulafı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avena selvatica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

owies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вівсюг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ovăz sălbatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άγρια ​​βρώμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wildehawer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flyghavre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

floghavre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wild oat

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD OAT»

The term «wild oat» is regularly used and occupies the 100.332 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
53
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «wild oat» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of wild oat
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «wild oat».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD OAT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wild oat» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wild oat» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wild oat

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD OAT»

Discover the use of wild oat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wild oat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Farmers' Bulletin
METHODS OF CONTROLLING Oil ERADICATING THE WILD OAT IN THE HARD SPRING-WHEAT AREA. CONTENTS. Page. Damage done by the wild oat 3 Description of the wild oat 5 How the wild oat is introduced 0 Divisions of the hard  ...
‎1919
2
Bach Flower Remedies: Form and Function
Wild Oat, the last of the Seven Helpers, 'is a remedy that may be needed by anyone'." This is an important distinction. Up until now Bach had differentiated according to the individual emotional state or mental outlook of the person — Gorse for ...
Julian Barnard, 2004
3
Oat Identification and Classification
WILD OAT The wild oat (Avena fatua L.), sometimes called the common wild oat, is by far the best known and decidedly the most widely distributed of the wild species of Avena. It has persisted as one of the most troublesome weeds in ...
Thomas Ray Stanton, 1955
4
The Ninth Regional Wheat Workshop: For Eastern, Central and ...
For each parameter, Dashen consistently showed the greatest decline, ET13 was intermediate, and Enkoy and Israel were the least affected by increasing wild oat density. 700 600 500 400 300 Spikes m -2 Wheat cv. Wild oat density ...
Douglas G. Tanner, Thomas S. Payne, Osman S. Abdalla, 1996
5
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
§57.7 Grain, Wild Oat, Vetch, and Grain Mixed hay (Group V). (a) Classes and class requirements. Class Mixture percentages Oat Red Oat. Wheat... Barley.-. Wild Oat Red Oat and Wild Oat Mixed. Wheat and Wild Oat Mixed. Wild Oat and ...
‎1988
6
Weed-Crop Competition: A Review
Barley's interspecific competition with wild oat was 7.3 times greater than its interspecific competition on a dry weight basis. When leaf area (see Chapter 9 on methods) was used as the yield variable, barley's intraspecific competition was only ...
Robert L. Zimdahl, 2007
7
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
I 50 100 150 200 250 Wild oat density ( plants per m-"i I 300 Fig. 4 — Yield reduction ( YR) of barley (open symbols) and peas (closed symbols) with increasing wild oat density (D). Regressions have been forced through the origin (figure ...
8
Non-Traditional Feeds for Use in Swine Production
There has been very little work conducted on the nutritive value of wild oat groats for swine. However, Thacker et al. (1986) did test their potential for use in starter rations. In this experiment, the control diet was based on wheat and soybean ...
Phillip A. Thacker, Roy N. Kirkwood, 1992
9
Advanced Bach Flower Therapy: A Scientific Approach to ...
Wild Oat is for people who want to do something sensible and meaningful but don't know how to go about it. AREA OF USE Wild Oat is used as the basic treatment for a feeling of poindessness, lack of clarity, lack of goals, self- alienation, crises ...
Götz Blome, 1999
10
Weed Management for Developing Countries
This has a small effect on subsequent infestations of wild oat. The initial effect of straw-burning is to reduce the numbers of seeds on the stubble, but differences between burnt and unburnt plots are very little in a few months time. Besides ...
R. Labrada, J. C. Caseley, C. Parker, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD OAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wild oat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Weed of the week: wild oats
Wild oats have been hurting yields and spoiling tame oat samples for generations. And with increasing instances of herbicide resistance, prairie farmers' fight ... «Western Producer, May 15»
2
The Wild Oats Project, book review: Robin Rinaldi's quest for sexual …
Robin Rinaldi has written about her open relationship in new book 'The Wild Oats Project' Rinaldi decides she will sleep with whoever she wants to during the ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
3
The Wild Oats Project by Robin Rinaldi – digested read
The indigo characters of the text read “2140 Jackson”. They threw off a crystalline charge that snaked up my arm and lit my chest from inside, as if I'd been sent ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
4
Here's What One Woman Learned From Taking a Year Off From Her …
Rinaldi's book, The Wild Oats Project, is a summary of what she learned during the year she spent in an open marriage. The idea came to her when her husband ... «TIME, Apr 15»
5
Promiscuity is not the path to female enlightenment
In "The Wild Oats Project," Robin Rinaldi writes that having sex with lots of men made being childless not so bad. Photo: John Chapple ... «New York Post, Mar 15»
6
The Wild Oats Project by Robin Rinaldi: Review
The Wild Oats Project is a roller-coaster, which covers this year-long experiment, but definitely a fascinating ride. So, during the week, she and her husband ... «Toronto Star, Mar 15»
7
The Wild Oats Project - a memoir about Robin Rinaldi's year in an …
The book, The Wild Oats Project, comes along in the middle of a cultural conversation on the viability of monogamy. Divorce is old hat; children of divorce are ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
8
The Wild Oats Project review: Robin Rinaldi took a year off from her …
Get ready for “The Wild Oats Project”. And not just the book. Get ready for “The Wild Oats Project” phenomenon — the debates, the think pieces, the imitators and ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
9
'I bedded 12 strangers in a year — with my husband's permission'
Scenarios like these were typical during my year of living dangerously — the crazy 12 months in 2008 and 2009 I jokingly call my “Wild Oats Project,” when Scott ... «New York Post, Mar 15»
10
She took a year off from her marriage to sleep with strangers. What …
THE WILD OATS PROJECT: One Woman's Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost. By Robin Rinaldi. Sarah Crichton/Farrar Straus Giroux. 287 pp. $26. Get ready ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wild oat [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wild-oat>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z