| Groats (n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Thesaurus Entries air, attritus, badness, bran, contamination, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, fallout, farina, filings, flour, grits, groats, harmfulness, health hazard, injuriousness, insalubriousness, insalubrity, kittens, lint, meal, menace to health, noise pollution, noisomeness, noxiousness, pathenogenicity, pollution, powder, pussies, raspings, sawdust, smut, soot, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsalutariness, unwholesomeness, water |