Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Belonging to or resembling oats.
Wiktionary
- adj. Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
Examples
“My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumbrous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacaphony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.”
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)
“My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.”
Lists
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Logolepsy
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Oats
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Adjectival Arcana
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reesetee Belonging to or resembling oats or the oat grasses. Jan 6, 2009