wild oat
Grain crop relative
Wild oat is a weedy grass that grows among cultivated grain crops, difficult to distinguish from useful oats until harvest.
The plural phrase sow one's wild oats means to indulge in youthful excess or promiscuity before settling down: He spent his twenties sowing wild oats before getting married.
Narrow-leaved ground cover
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- cerealProcessed grain for breakfast
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- forageSeek food actively
weed · pasture · meadow · prairie · invasive · annual · panicle · spikelet
Planting for cultivation
- youthState of being immature
- indiscretionUnwise act or remark
- flingForceful toss, or tryst
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
escapade · misstep · folly · recklessness · adventure · experimentation · carousing · revelry
Cultivated agricultural plants
- farmingCultivating land for food
- harvestGathering mature crops
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- plowTool for turning soil
combine · threshing · cultivation · planting · germination · volunteer · contamination · weed control
grass
Narrow-leaved ground cover
forage · weed · pasture · meadow · prairie · invasive · annual · panicle · spikelet · awn
sowing
Planting for cultivation
- youthState of being immature
- indiscretionUnwise act or remark
- flingForceful toss, or tryst
affair · escapade · misstep · folly · recklessness · adventure · experimentation · carousing · revelry · profligacy
crop
Cultivated agricultural plants
plow · combine · threshing · cultivation · planting · germination · volunteer · contamination · weed control · herbicide
- oatsoatmeal, rolled oats, steel-cut oats, instant oats, quick oats
- weedsdandelion, crabgrass, thistle, nettles, ragweed
- Bach Flowersagrimony, aspen, beech, centaury, chicory
- Invasive Grassescheatgrass, crabgrass, quackgrass, giant reed, pampas grass
- grainswheat, rice, oats, barley, corn
- grassesgrass, bluegrass, bermudagrass, fescue, ryegrass
wild oatcash crop
Produce grown for sale
food crop · cereal crop · garden plant · wheat · barley
wild oatsettling down
Becoming stable and rooted
commitment · marriage · responsibility · domesticity · monogamy
wild, wildly, wilderness, wildlife, oat, wildfire, wildest, wilder, wilding