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Meaning of GROATS

Pronunciation:  growts

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
 
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 See Also: cereal, food grain, grain

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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