wild oat in English
noun
1
an Old World grass that is related to the cultivated oat and is commonly found as a weed of other cereal plants.
Replicated across a range of WA soil types, the study examined annual ryegrass, wild radish, wild oats , wall fumitory, brome grass and barley grass persistence, in plots isolated to guard against the arrival of new seed.
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1. But long before that jalopy set out on Route the wild oat had done its landscape-altering work.
2. Here we report that the Coleorhiza, a sheath‐like organ that surrounds the radicle in grass embryos, performs the same role in the grass weed Avena fatua (common wild oat).