Wild Oats
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Wild Oats or wild oats can refer to the following:
- Any wild species of grasses belonging to the genus Avena, which also includes the cereal oat (A. sativa).
- Wild Oats Markets, a natural foods and farmers' market chain of stores in North America.
- A colloquial term for nonsensical pursuits or sexual dalliances of unmarried, young adults ("sow one's wild oats")
- Wild Oats (TV series), a sitcom that aired in 1994
- Wild Oats (film), a 1940s-era exploitation film.
- Wild Oats (play), a 1791 comedy by John O'Keeffe, revived first by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976 and then by many theatres in the UK, US, and Canada; later re-written by American playwright James McLure and set in the American Old West.