The common oat (Avena sativa) is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other grains). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed. Common Names in English: black tartarian oats (a variety of Avena sativa L.), common oat, common oats, cultivated oat, cultivated oats, oat, oat hay, oats, red oat, sativa oats, side oat, tree oat, wild oat in Arabic : azekkoun, hartaman, khortan, shufan, tamenzirt, taskrunt, ziwan, zummeir in Spanish : avena roja, avena común, avena in Morocco : hortâl, âzqûn, wazqûn, wasqûn in Latin America : avena, avena silvestre, awina in Southern Africa : gewone hawer, sativa hawer; habore ( Sotho) in Bhutan : bachu in China : yan mai in India : ganer, jai, javi, jawi, kuljud, otdhanya, pai, seeme thoke godhi, vilaaythi jaw, wilayati jau, yupo in Japan : ma-karasu-mugi in Thailand ...