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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Common oat in English is the name of a plant defined with Avena fatua in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Avena septentrionalis Malzev (among others).

2) Common oat is also identified with Avena sativa It has the synonym Avena pseudosativa Thell. ex Malzev (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, ser. 2 (1938)
· Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Gramineae (1970)
· Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora, 4 edn. (1843)
· A Class-book of Botany ed. 2 (1847)
· Erst. Beitr. Fl. Hercyn. (1840)
· Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta (1817)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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