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AVENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Avena mean? 

AVENA (noun)
  The noun AVENA has 1 sense:

1. oatsplay

  Familiarity information: AVENA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AVENA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Oats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Avena; genus Avena

Hypernyms ("Avena" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Avena"):

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

Holonyms ("Avena" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)


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