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Avena   Listen
noun
Avena  n.  (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... congenial, or they would not survive. But when we see how the Australian Eucalyptus-trees thrive upon the Californian coast, and how these very redwoods flourish upon another continent; how the so-called wild-oat (Avena sterilis of the Old World) has taken full possession of California; how that cattle and horses, introduced by the Spaniard, have spread as widely and made themselves as much at home on the plains of La Plata as on those of Tartary; and that the cardoon-thistle-seeds, and others ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray



Words linked to "Avena" :   grass family, Avena barbata, plant genus, Poaceae, Avena sativa, family Poaceae



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