| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Expression | 1. A grass (Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion.[Websters]. | |
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| Animated oats | A grass (Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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