oats

柯林斯星级

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现代语料频率: 11366

中文翻译

n. 燕麦, 燕麦属植物, 燕麦粥, 麦片粥

英文解释

n annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

n seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

常见例句

it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.

n a flexible container with a single opening n the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) n a place that the runner must touch before scoring n a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) n the quantity that a bag will hold n a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes n an ugly or ill-tempered woman n mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) n an activity that you like or at which you are superior v capture or kill, as in hunting v hang loosely, like an empty bag v bulge out

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass