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Definition of False oat
1. Noun. Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Arrhenatherum, Genus Arrhenatherum
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Oat
Literary usage of False oat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Rothamsted Experiments by Daniel Hall, Robert Warington, Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee (1905)
"24 and 25, representing turf from these plots. The dominant grasses on Plot 9
consist of false oat Grass, Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Tall oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius) is known also as tall meadow oat-grass,
tall oat-grass, false oat-grass, French rye-grass and, in .the South, ..."
3. The Collegians: Or, The Colleen Bawn, a Tale of Garryowen by Gerald Griffin (1906)
"... an' it would be a rash oat, Lowry, for—' (here he tossed off the spirits) '
I'm blest but it wouldn't be long before I'd make it a false oat. ..."
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