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soja bean

noun

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

• Syn:

↑soy, ↑soya, ↑soybean, ↑soya bean, ↑soybean plant, ↑soja, ↑Glycine max

• Hypernyms: ↑legume, ↑leguminous plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Glycine, ↑genus Glycine

• Part Meronyms: ↑soy, ↑soybean, ↑soya, ↑soya bean

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noun

see soja II

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so|ja «SOH juh, -yuh», noun, or soja bean,

= soybean. (Cf. ↑soybean)

╂[< New Latin soja, perhaps < Dutch < Japanese shōyu; see etym. under soy (Cf. ↑soy)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.