groats

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Noun Plural

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun groats has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

groatsn. pl. [OE. grot, AS. grātan; 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.  [1913 Webster]
Embden groats, crushed oats.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

groats, n.pl. hulled or crushed grain, esp. oats.

Etymology
OE grotan (pl.): cf. grot fragment, greot GRIT, grytt bran

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