different between oat vs coleoptile

English

Etymology

From Middle English ote, from Old English ?te, from Proto-Germanic *ait? (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?t, IPA^(key): /??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?t/
• Homophone: ot-
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

oat (countable and uncountable, plural oats)

1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

2. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

3. (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
   • 1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing (?ISBN), page 2:

     The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato.

4. A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bran

Further reading

• oat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, To'a, tao, toa

Finnish

Noun

oat

1. Nominative plural form of oka.

Anagrams

• ota, tao

English

Etymology

A classical compound of the Ancient Greek ?????? (koleós, “sheath”) + the English -ptile (“leaf”) – the suffix representing the Ancient Greek ??????? (ptílon) – probably after the French coléoptile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?li???pt?l/

Noun

coleoptile (plural coleoptiles)

1. (botany) A pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as oats and grasses.

Related terms

• coleoptilar

Translations

Further reading

• coleoptile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek ?????? (koleós, “sheath”) + ??????? (ptílon, “feather”).

Noun

coleoptile m (plural coleoptili)

1. coleoptile

   Synonym: coleottile