groats
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Groats \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. [1913 Webster]
Embden groats, crushed oats. [1913 Webster]