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AVENA [17 records]

Record 1 2024-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

OBS

wild oats: preferred common name in the Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds (2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

OBS

folle avoine : nom commun aussi employé pour désigner les espèces Zizania palustris et Zizania aquatica.

OBS

folle avoine : nom à privilégier selon l'Inventaire des mauvaises herbes du Canada (2003).

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

Key term(s)
  • vanilla sweet-grass
  • holygrass
  • common sweet grass
  • common sweet-grass
  • sweet grass
  • sweet-grass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the Poaceae family.

Key term(s)
  • hulless oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 4 2020-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Forage Crops
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Gramineae.

Key term(s)
  • hairy oat grass
  • hairy oatgrass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Graminées.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

Key term(s)
  • meadow oatgrass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poacées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 7 2016-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Key term(s)
  • tartarian oat
  • side oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 8 2016-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Key term(s)
  • short oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 9 2016-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 10 2016-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Grain food.

OBS

common oats; cultivated oats: terms standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • cultivated oat
  • common oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Céréales grains.

OBS

avoine; avoine cultivée : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 11 2012-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Oats come in a variety of kernel colors - white, red, grey, tan, yellow, black. Lighter color oats are most often used as food oats, darker color oats as feeds. ... Red oats are a different species than white-tan-yellow or grey oats. Red oats are often considered to be hay oats.

OBS

red oats; Algerian oats: Commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

OBS

red oats: term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • red oat
  • Algerian oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Principales espèces de céréales en grains.

OBS

avoine rouge; avoine d'Algérie; avoine bysantine : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Gramínea anual cultivada para grano y forraje.

OBS

Se adapta a condiciones cálidas mejor que la avena común, y es más resistente a la sequía. Apetecible para el pastoreo.

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Record 12 2009-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

Key term(s)
  • spike oat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

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Record 14 2009-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

Key term(s)
  • one and a half flowered reed grass
  • one-and-a-half-flowered reedgrass
  • one and a half flowered reedgrass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

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Record 15 2009-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A perennial plant [of the family Poaceae], medium size, hairy (a few exceptions), cespitous, with short rhizomes.

Key term(s)
  • yellow oat-grass
  • yellow oat grass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de 20 à 80 cm de haut [de la famille des Poaceae], formant des touffes plus denses de couleur vert franc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 16 2008-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

The common oat, an annual herb native to Europe and Asia.

OBS

Term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

Key term(s)
  • oats

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

Plante graminée (céréale) à épillets en panicules, dont le grain sert surtout à l'alimentation [animale et humaine].

OBS

Terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
CONT

La avena se utiliza principalmente en la alimentación de los animales, aunque actualmente es un elemento de base para los desayunos.

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Record 17 2000-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
DEF

an annual European oat (Avena strigosa) with a lemma having two long apical bristles.

Key term(s)
  • sand oats

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Les avoines cultivées en France appartiennent au genre Avena, tribu des Avenées (famille des graminées) (...) [On relève l'] A. strigosa (Avoine strigneuse): à glumelle inférieure terminée par deux pointes fines, une arête sur chaque grain.

OBS

Selon M. J.-P. Asselin, de l'Université Laval, cette espèce aurait aussi été cultivée dans l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard.

Key term(s)
  • avoine rude

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Molinería y cereales
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