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Soy

noun

A source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food. Synonyms: soya bean, soybean.

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.

Thin sauce made of fermented soy beans. Synonym: soy sauce.

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

... time you suggest anything like manual labor—he is incapable of any other—even for such purposes as camp sanitation, carrying rations, or for any other purpose. His manly chest swells with pride and he exclaims in accents of wounded dignity, "Yo soy soldado!" Still his pride does not by any chance get him knowingly under fire. At El Poso some of him did get under fire from artillery, accidentally, and it took a strong provost guard to keep him there. If he ever got under fire again there ...

— The Gatlings at Santiago • John H. Parker

... evening I shall eat of the best: Of chicken cream and pigeon in soy-ed, With a brown noodle of pork and prawn, And a curry of fish and a large Chung Goun, Sweet onions, and black eggs and chow chow. And when we have done, We will have cakes and tea, and music and songs, And call in our white ...

— Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse • Thomas Burke

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