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Answer for the clue "Seed of rape plants ", 8 letters:
rapeseed

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Word definitions for rapeseed in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rapeseed ( Brassica napus ), also known as rape , oilseed rape , rapa , rappi , rapaseed (and, in the case of one particular group of cultivars , canola ), is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), consumed ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The rape plant, ''Brassica napus'', which produces a grain that is used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil. 2 The seed of such plant.

Usage examples of rapeseed.

Italy who eat a lot of rapeseed or other peasanty staple that makes their piss high in progesterone or some such fecund elixir.

Once father and son were out of the way the Knife would find himself Lord of the High Granges, Lord of the Highland Passes, and Lord of the Rapeseed Granges.

Bronze torches had been hammered into the softer sandstone, and a Castlemilk luntman was busy filling their fuel reservoirs with pure-burning rapeseed oil.

The Lord of the High Granges, Lord of the Highland Passes, and Lord of the Rapeseed Granges looked at the cushion as if it were a serpent, shoved it onto the floor with the butt of his cane, and then sat.

And since it was obvious feminists would never use an oil derived from rapeseed, we were all introduced to canola oil.

The wagon is loaded with ceramic crocks of the kind used to hold rapeseed oil, all roped fast to the sideboards.

We have begun construction of a polymer plant, now that our chemists have discovered how to build molecules of plastics from the oils produced from rapeseed and euphorbia.

And, says Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord Harry's orders.