groats
groats Lexical Profile
groats Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The hulled kernels of various cereal grains, such as oats, wheat, barley, or buckwheat, that remain whole or are coarsely cracked after the inedible outer husks are removed.
"She simmered the toasted buckwheat groats in vegetable broth to make a hearty winter porridge."
British Plural form of groat: former English and Scottish silver coins, historically worth fourpence.
"The museum's numismatic collection featured several medieval silver groats minted during the reign of Edward III."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In the grain sense, the word derives from Old English 'grot', meaning a coarse meal, particle, or fragment, related to 'grit'. In the monetary sense, it comes from Middle Dutch 'groot' ('great' or 'thick'), referring to a thick silver coin as opposed to thinner foil coins.