Definitions for: Groats

[n] the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals

Webster (1913) Definition: Groats, n. pl. [OE. grot, AS. gr[=a]tan; akin to Icel.
grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See Grout.]
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed;
in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than
grits.

Embden groats, crushed oats.

See Also: cereal, food grain, grain