soya bean
US and Canadian soybean (ˈsɔɪˌbiːn)
/ (ˈsɔɪə) /
an Asian bean plant, Glycine max (or G. soja), cultivated for its nutritious seeds, for forage, and to improve the soil
the seed of this plant, used as food, forage, and as the source of an oil
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How to use soya bean in a sentence
Though domesticated more than 3,000 years ago, “hardly any other food plant is as modern as the soya bean.”
Mixture of boiled tung and soya bean oil, thinned with petroleum and turpentine.
Paint Technology and Tests | Henry A. Gardnersoya bean oil, wood oil, and fish oil present themselves as candidates for such use.
Paint Technology and Tests | Henry A. GardnerThe soya bean is rapidly becoming an important product, especially in Manchuria.
The Problem of China | Bertrand RussellIn some places I saw soya bean being grown between the rows as green manuring.
The Foundations of Japan | J.W. Robertson Scott
This Manchu-Mongolian plain is destined to be the source of the world's supply of soya bean.
The International Development of China | Sun Yat-sen
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