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soy beans

Soja \So"ja\ (s[=o]"j[.a] or s[=o]"y[.a]), n. (Bot.) An Asiatic leguminous herb ( Glycine max, formerly Glycine Soja) the seeds of which (called soy beans) are used in preparing the sauce called soy. Called also soya.

soy beans

Soybean \Soy"bean\ (soi"b[=e]n`), n.

  1. (Bot.) An Asiatic leguminous herb ( Glycine max, formerly Glycine Soja) the seeds of which (also called soy beans) are used in preparing the sauce called soy. Called also soya bean and soya.

  2. the seeds of the Glycine max, which produce soybean oil; -- called also soya bean.

Usage examples of "soy beans".

A number of animals were discovered up in the mountains, near a remote agricultural station that was growing test varieties of soy beans.

The same amount of fake-steak, made from soy beans, would have cost 80x.

The same amount of fakesteak, made from soy beans, would have cost 80K.

The two often sit in the botany section and talk amidst the orchids -- for beauty -- and tomatoes and carrots and soy beans for a nutritious diet.

To hell with anything based on Antarctic krill, plankton protein, or soy beans.

He was a tycoon, a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, the bank we did business with, and president of the Seaboard Products Corporation- one of those vague firms occupying six floors of a big skyscraper and selling annually a billion dollars' worth of something nobody ever actually saw, like soy beans or powdered coconut shells or dried llama's hoofs.