Oat vs. Ort — What's the Difference?

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed.

Often orts A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed.

An Old World cereal plant with a loose, branched cluster of florets, cultivated in cool climates and widely used for animal feed.

A scrap; a bit.

An oat stem used as a musical pipe by shepherds, especially in pastoral or bucolic poetry.

A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.

Any of various grasses of the genus Avena, especially A. sativa, widely cultivated for their edible grains.

To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

The grain of any of these plants, used as food and fodder.

A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; - commonly used in the plural.

A musical pipe made of an oat straw.

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.

A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; - commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

A musical pipe made of oat straw.

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

Seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')