soybean
noun
soy·bean
| \ ˈsȯi-ˌbēn
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variants:
or less commonly soya bean \ ˈsȯi-ə-
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Definition of soybean
: a hairy annual Asian legume (Glycine max) widely grown for its oil-rich proteinaceous seeds and for forage and soil improvement
also
: its seed
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The world's largest soybean importer struck deals from Aug. 9 to 15 to buy 9,589 tonnes for delivery in the current marketing year and 66,000 tonnes for the next year, the data showed. — Washington Post, "ECB considers options to address slowdown," 23 Aug. 2019 So, cotton seed meal, for example, is high in nitrogen at 6-1-1, as is soybean meal, which comes in at 7-2-0. — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, "Feed your garden beds now so they’ll be ready for spring," 22 Aug. 2019 In addition to corn and soybean farming, Miller and his family — wife, Anna, and 13-year-old daughter Katie — operate MaryDale-Rose Belgians. — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, "Some of the State Fair's biggest animals are gentlest: Draft horses 'heal you from the inside out'," 16 Aug. 2019 Didn’t soybeans embody everything wrong with industrial agriculture, from monoculture to deforestation? — Rachel Sugar, Vox, "Oatly and the quest for the perfect alt-milk," 14 Aug. 2019 Also, livestock are typically fed corn, soybean meal and other grains—which first have to be grown using fertilizers, fuels, pesticides, water and land. — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, "These Plants Can Replace Meat—but Will Doing So Help the Environment?," 8 Aug. 2019 The thistle caterpillars have been hatching in unusual droves across Iowa soybean fields. — USA TODAY, "Leaping frogs, spiny lobsters, hostile roosters: News from around our 50 states," 26 July 2019 Agriculture incomes have been depressed in the wake of China’s retaliatory tariffs which hurt demand for everything from cotton to pork to soybeans. — Mike Dorning And Mario Parker / Bloomberg, Time, "Farmers Press for an End to the Trade War as the Trump Administration Rolls Out a $16 Billion Bailout," 26 July 2019 Another Life opens with an ouroboros-like alien spacecraft cruising above Earth, then crashing into a soybean field and turning into a crystalline communications tower. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, "Netflix’s Another Life starts as Arrival, then turns into Star Trek," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'soybean.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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soybean
noun
English Language Learners Definition of soybean
US
: the bean of an Asian plant that contains a large amount of protein and that is used as a food
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soybean
noun
soy·bean
| \ ˈsȯi-ˌbēn
\
\
Kids Definition of soybean
: the edible seed of an Asian plant that is rich in protein
soybean
noun
soy·bean
| \ ˈsȯi-ˌbēn
\
\
variants:
also soya bean
Medical Definition of soybean
: a hairy annual Asian legume (Glycine max) grown for its oil-rich proteinaceous seeds and for forage and soil improvement
also
: its seed
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