Wild Oats Definition

noun
A woodland plant (Uvularia sessilifolia) of the lily family, with small, drooping, yellowish flowers, native to E North America.
Webster's New World
Any of several wild grasses (genus Avena); esp., the wild progenitor (A. fatua) of the cultivated oat, having strong, twisted awns and commonly occurring as a weed, esp. in the W U.S.
Webster's New World
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  • Yes, but I have had a hundred and fifty-eight years to sow my wild oats.

  • I was sowing wild oats at that age and not thinking clearly.

  • You never sowed any wild oats in my field, damn it!

  • Here the first period of Disraeli's public life came to an end, a period of preliminaries and flourishes, and of what he himself called sowing his political wild oats.

  • I could get drunk, sow a few wild oats " .

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