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Definition of Avena
1. Noun. Oats.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Oat
Definition of Avena
1. n. A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Medical Definition of Avena
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Avena
Literary usage of Avena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Das habsburg.-oesterreichische Urbarbuch by Franz Pfeiffer (1850)
"... avena? mensura? Winter- tur. Item super viam in maio unum libram. ... i modium
tritici & i modium avena? mensura? ..."
2. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies by Edward Pollock Anshutz (1900)
"prescribe Aur. mur. nat. simply as an excellent nervine, following Niemeyer, it
occasionally does good, but generally leaves me in the lurch. avena SATIVA. ..."
3. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Arena saliva. EE. Panicles unilateral, appressed. avena sativa ... Crosses Between
avena fatua and A. sativa.—It is generally accepted that fatua is the ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... avena," " We cultivate the Muse, living on a little oatmeal." ' ' The eighth
or ninth story' is poetry : as it happens that Buccleuch Place is in the ..."
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