Meaning of SOY
| Pronunciation: | | soy
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- [n] most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known
- [n] thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
- [n] erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
- [n] a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
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| | Synonyms: | | Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy sauce, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant |
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| | See Also: | | bean, bean, bean plant, condiment, edible bean, field soybean, genus Glycine, Glycine, Glycine max, legume, leguminous plant, soja, soja bean, soy, soy, soy flour, soya, soya bean, soyabean, soyabean oil, soybean, soybean flour, soybean meal, soybean oil, soybean plant | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Soy\, n. [Chinese sh[=o]y[=u].]
1. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made
by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and
meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt
and water.
2. (Bot.) The soja, a kind of bean. See {Soja}.
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