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soya bean
Also † soja bean; soyabean.
[f. soya + bean.]
a. = soybean.
1897Publ. Georgia Dept. Agric. 1896 64 A display of soja beans..a legume of exceptionally fine quality for stock feed. 1905Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 220/2 Soya beans..are grown all over Japan and in Manchuria. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Feb. 167/2 The high nutritive value of the soya bean has long been recognized. 1958Times Rev. Industry Apr. 92/2 The 1957 increase was well spread; there were..good crops of soyabeans in the United States. 1968J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Dicotyledons I. 265 Soya beans are one of the world's most important sources of oil and protein. 1973Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, New Brunswick) 26 July 1 Canada is not a big user of soya beans.
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1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Apr. 14/2 In the cargo for Victoria was a shipment of 500 tubs of soya bean oil. 1944V. Hodgson Diary 7 May in C. Driver British at Table (1983) ii. 16, I have an order with the Dairy for a pound of sausage..of soya bean flour. 1966Gettens & Stout Painting Materials 62 Soya Bean Oil... A typical analysis of soya bean oil gives 14 per cent of palmitic acid. 1977G. Scott Hot Pursuit iii. 26 Drinking glass after glass of..soya bean milk bought from little carts at every corner. |