Associations to the word «Avena»

Wiktionary

AVENA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae   — grasses, including the common oat; the oat grasses.
AVENA SATIVA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Poaceae   — the common oat, widely cultivated.

Dictionary definition

AVENA, noun. Oats.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats