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Definition of Animated oat
1. Noun. Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animated Oat
Literary usage of Animated oat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology by Robert Townson (1799)
"... to distant parts: but I know not whether the contrivance of the husk of the
animated Oat, (avena gigantea) by which it is adapted to fow itself, ..."
2. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"... a native of the South of Europe, Is the animated oat of the gardens.
The "animation" is produced by the contraction and expansion ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1851)
"Avena Sterilis, animated oat, was introduced from Barbary, 1640; it is only
cultivated as a curiosity, and as a bait for salmon. ..."
4. Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues: An Explanatory Guide to the by Robert Hunt (1851)
"... is occasionally cultivated in gardens as a curiosity, under the name of Fly,
or Animated, oat, from the property the grain has of acquiring a creeping ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"animated oat. Sometimes grown for the curious movements of the ripe florets due
to the hygroscopic action of the profuse covering of hairs ; panicle very ..."
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