groats

1 8.7

Grains with their outer shell removed and cut small, like oats, used for porridge

noun
/ɡroʊts/

: granos

Many people enjoy cooking with groats because they are nutritious and filling.

So the kind of main seed that we're left with that's edible is actually called a groat.

Examples

From Land's End to John o'Groats!

Pixels (2015)
Switchyard director at the Moscow Trust of the Flour and Groats Industry, where he stole wholesale by the boxcar.

Fiction book (1992)
I bought some groats to make a hearty porridge for breakfast.
To ensure a healthy diet, she included groats in her salad.

Synonyms

grain

vsgroats

203 1.0

An edible seed from plants like wheat or rice used as food

is a hulled and crushed form rather than any whole cereal seed

groat

vsgroats

1 9.8

A grain from oats or barley with the outer husk removed and bran left

is a hulled and crushed form rather than an intact seed

food grain

vsgroats

1 2.3

A small dry seed from plants like wheat or rice that people eat

is a processed hulled and crushed product not raw cereal seed

Surface Forms

groats plural

groat singular

Morphology

groats = groat (transparent) = groat + s

Simple plural formation from the noun 'groat'; the plural 'groats' directly denotes more than one groat.

Etymology

Groats comes from old words meaning 'coarse' or 'crushed' grain, and it originally named the rough, broken seeds used for food. A helpful way to remember it is to think of groats like grit — small, rough bits — so groats are the hulled, crushed grains you cook into porridge.