Animated 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.

See also: Oat

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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animated oat
Avene sterilis
oat
wild red oat

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