Oat vs Rice - What's the difference?
oat | rice |
(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
(usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
A specific variety of this plant.
(uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces.
To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
To belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state.
To harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.
1000 English basic words
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As a noun oat
is (uncountable) widely cultivated cereal grass, typically avena sativa .As a verb rice is
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(wikipedia oat)Noun
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- World trade in oat is increasing.
- The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .
