Usually means: Sowing seeds of youthful indiscretion.
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  1. wild oats: Merriam-Webster
  2. wild oats: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wild oats: Vocabulary.com
  4. wild oats: Wordnik
  5. wild oats: Wiktionary
  6. wild oats: Dictionary.com
  7. Wild Oats (TV series), Wild Oats (film), Wild Oats (play), Wild Oats: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. wild oats: Rhymezone
  9. Wild Oats: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. wild oats: FreeDictionary.org
  11. wild oats: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. wild oats: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wild Oats: Botanical Name listing of Plants

(Note: See wild_oat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wild oats)

noun:  Oats of non-cultivated species of Avena, a genus of grasses.
noun:  Chasmanthium latifolium, a grass, Indian woodoats
noun:  Species of Uvularia, the bellworts.
noun:  Species of Aegilops, goatgrass.
noun:  (archaic) A rake.

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