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Definition of soy in English: soynoun sɔɪsɔɪ mass noun1Protein derived from the beans of an Asian plant, used as a replacement for animal protein in certain foods; soya. I'm trying to add more soy into my diet soy is a key ingredient in livestock feed 2The widely cultivated plant of the pea family which produces soya beans. soy is the nation's leading source of food-grade oil the most common GMOs are soy, corn, canola, and cotton
OriginLate 17th century: from Japanese soy, shoy, variant of shō-yu, from Chinese shi-yu, from shi ‘salted beans’ + yu ‘oil’. Rhymesahoy, alloy, Amoy, annoy, boy, buoy, cloy, coy, destroy, employ, enjoy, Hanoi, hoi polloi, hoy, Illinois, joy, koi, oi, ploy, poi, Roy, savoy, tatsoi, toy, trompe l'œil, troy Definition of soy in US English: soynounsɔɪsoi 1Protein derived from soybeans, used as a replacement for animal protein in foods and fodder. I'm trying to add more soy into my diet British term soya soy is a key ingredient in livestock feed 2The soybean plant. soy is the nation's leading source of food-grade oil the most common GMOs are soy, corn, canola, and cotton
OriginLate 17th century: from Japanese soy, shoy, variant of shō-yu, from Chinese shi-yu, from shi ‘salted beans’ + yu ‘oil’. |