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Soy   /sɔɪ/   Listen
Soy

noun
1.
A source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food.  Synonyms: soya bean, soybean.
2.
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.  Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant.
3.
Thin sauce made of fermented soy beans.  Synonym: soy sauce.
4.
The most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein).  Synonyms: soya, soya bean, soybean.



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"Soy" Quotes from Famous Books



... meal is particularly excellent for this purpose because it is a dry, flowing, odorless material that stores well. I suspect that cottonseed meal from the southwest may be better endowed with trace minerals than that from leached-out southeastern soils or soy meal from depleted midwestern farms. See the last section of ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... He is a captain. Soy frances: I am a Frenchman. Se hizo actor: He became an actor. Le elegimos miembro de esta sociedad: We elect him a member of this society. Fue elegido miembro: ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... prayer for me. An honest man waits my death to love her better, and be the father of my son. Hala o hala! I have had the daughter of my murdered friend to kiss and bless me, and to love my son. My son has given me his confidence, unknowing whom I was, and shown to me a brave, pure heart. Yo soy amado! Their prayers may knock for me at the eternal door. But thou, the murderer of my youth, no heart will pray for. Believe in hell, and ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... bon mastin, he is as steadable to him as a good mastive. Charite bien reiglee commence a soy mesme. To the same purpose, le peau est nous plus cher que la chemise. Le chat aime le poisson bien, mais elle n'aime pas de mouiller ses pates. Ce qui vien de la fluste s'en retourne au son du tambour, Il woon soon spent; goods lightly gotten lightly slipes ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder



Words linked to "Soy" :   legume, bean, genus Glycine, leguminous plant, edible bean, condiment, glycine



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