noun
1. a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
• Hypernyms: ↑bean
• Part Holonyms:
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
• Syn:
• Hypernyms: ↑legume, ↑leguminous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Glycine, ↑genus Glycine
3. 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)
• Hypernyms: ↑bean, ↑edible bean
• Hyponyms: ↑field soybean
• Substance Holonyms: ↑soybean meal, ↑soybean flour, ↑soy flour, ↑soy sauce, ↑soy
• Part Holonyms:
• Substance Meronyms: ↑soybean oil, ↑soyabean oil
Useful english dictionary. 2012.