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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



... a w'y with the loydies! All the dorlins upon me are gorn! For they soy—'Yn't he noice! you can tell by his vice, He's a toff ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various

... vanidad; y anadio que habia enviado al Papa un tratadillo que habia compuesto, porque Su Santidad tenia deseo como el decia, de ver alguna cosa suya; y mostromele para que yo le viese... Visto, porque me pidio mi parecer y yo soy claro, dijele que quisiera que una cosa que enviaba a lugar tan senalado por muestra de su ingenio, fuera de mas substancia, o que a lo menos aquel argumento lo tratara mas copiosamente, porque traia pocos lugares, y esos ordinarios, aunque como ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly



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



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