Definition of False oat

1. Noun. Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage.


Lexicographical Neighbors of False Oat

false memory syndrome
false mildew
false mistletoe
false miterwort
false mitrewort
false modesty
false mole
false morel
false name
false negative
false negatives
false nettle
false neuroma
false northing
false nucleolus
false oat (current term)
false pain
false paracusis
false pelvis
false pimpernel
false positive
false positives
false pregnancy
false pretence
false pretense
false pretenses
false projection
false punishment
false ragweed
false return

Literary usage of False oat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of the Rothamsted Experiments by Daniel Hall, Robert Warington, Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee (1905)
"24 and 25, representing turf from these plots. The dominant grasses on Plot 9 consist of false oat Grass, Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, ..."

2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Tall oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius) is known also as tall meadow oat-grass, tall oat-grass, false oat-grass, French rye-grass and, in .the South, ..."

3. The Collegians: Or, The Colleen Bawn, a Tale of Garryowen by Gerald Griffin (1906)
"... an' it would be a rash oat, Lowry, for—' (here he tossed off the spirits) ' I'm blest but it wouldn't be long before I'd make it a false oat. ..."

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