Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun avene_sterilis

1 sense of avene sterilis

Sense 1
wild red oat, animated oat, Avene sterilis -- (Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat)
       => oat -- (annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats'))