
Meaning of GROATS
Pronunciation: | | growts
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [n] the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals |
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| See Also: | | cereal, food grain, grain | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Groats\, n. pl. [OE. grot, AS. gr[=a]tan; akin to Icel.
grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See {Grout}.]
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed;
in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than
grits.
{Embden groats}, crushed oats.
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