oilseedn.
/ˈɔɪlsiːd/, U.S. /ˈɔɪlˌsid/ Any of various kinds of seed that yield oil, e.g. sesame, linseed, flax seed, cotton-seed, niger seed, sunflower seed, etc.; (also) a plant or crop that yields such seed.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > ramtil plant or seeds
oilseed1562
ramtil1846
niger seed1856
noug1959
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > castor-oil plant or bean
ricinusOE
oil treea1425
Palma Christic1450
man's motherworta1500
tick-seed1562
tick-weed1563
finger orchis1597
kick1597
steadfast1597
palmchrist1611
oil-nut1694
oilseed1760
castor-oil bean1814
castor-bean1819
castor-oil plant1839
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun]
corna700
kernelc1000
seedOE
grain1377
pippina1382
acinusa1398
acine1597
seedling1675
vegetable egg1675
seedlet1754
pip1773
oilseed1887
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 134 Sesama whyche maye be called in English oyle sede is euell for the stomack.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 320 Oil Seed, Ricinus.
1847 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 10 293 Of the other products the four species of sugar-cane, cotton, tobacco, dyes, oil-seeds, hemp, flax..it is not necessary to speak.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Siberian oil-seed, a local name in Canada for the Camelina sativa, or Gold of pleasure.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 349 Imported into this country from the West Coast of Africa as an oil-seed.
1892 Daily News 3 Sept. 7/3 In the Punjab the season..was fairly good for oilseeds, the area under which was the largest on record.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 2/2 Then we have no oil-seed to press, and the crops wither, and we suffer.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Nov. 2/1 He recommended that 358,352,000 acres be planted to cultivated crop such as grains, vegetables, sugar cane and beets, oilseeds, cotton and tobacco and noncultivated crop such as hay and seed crops.
1987 N. Sibal Yatra 43 He bought from them rice, ghee, fine walnut wood, oilseeds, woollen shawls, raw silk and dried fruits.
2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 15/6 Taxes to protect local oilseed growers from the effects of depressed international market prices.
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oilseed cake n. = oilcake n.
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1850 Littell's Living Age 9 Feb. 285/1 A seizure has just been made in London ‘of a quantity of compressed snuff, made up in the form of oilseed caken and packed together with genuine cakes of that article’.
1957 Jrnl. Industr. Econ. 5 209 The most important of these are: (i)companies..which purchase all their ingredients, which in addition to wheatfeed, include oilseed cake and meal.
1995 Amer. Anthropologist 97 486/2 Cattle..are given extra oilseed cake when they are lactating.
oilseed rape n. a form of rape, Brassica napus subsp. oleifera, that is grown for its seeds (which yield an edible oil), and as a forage crop (cf. rape n.5 2); also called canola, coleseed, colza.
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1967 Punch 10 May 687/2 Other..break crops include roots, oats, and oil seed rape.
1990 R. Staines Market Gardening v. 53 Initial infection seems to coincide with harvesting of oil-seed rape in which Alternaria can be endemic.
1994 Times 16 May 18/2 River banks are a mass of white and yellow flowers where cow parsley mingles with escaped plants of oilseed rape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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