AVENA
\avˈiːnə], \avˈiːnə], \a_v_ˈiː_n_ə]\
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By Noah Webster.
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Oats are used as food for man in some parts, particularly in the North of England and Scotland. When deprived of the husks, they form Groats. Reduced to meal- they are applied as cataplasms to promote suppuration. The dry meal is sprinkled over erysipelatous parts. It is a good demulcent, and is used also as a vehicle for clysters.
By Robley Dunglison
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).