A very nutritious cereal grass Oats that have been cleaned, toasted, and hulled become "oat groats" which can be cooked and served Steaming and flattening the grain in rollers produces "rolled oats " The hull is called the "bran "
A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')