oatmeal

noun

1. meal made from ground or rolled oats.
2. a cooked breakfast food made from this.
3. a grayish-fawn color.

adjective

4. made with or containing oatmeal: oatmeal cookies.

noun

1. meal ground from oats, used for making porridge, oatcakes, etc
2. 1. a greyish-yellow colour
   2. (as adjective)an oatmeal coat

n.late 14c., from oat + Middle English mele (see meal (n.2)).