different between wheat vs oat

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hw?te, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hw?taz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe

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