soya beann.
/ˈsɔɪə biːn/, U.S. /ˈsɔɪə ˌbin/ The round protein-rich seed of the leguminous plant Glycine max, which occurs in various colours (esp. brown, yellow, and black) and is an important food source for humans and livestock. Also: the plant itself, an annual with trifoliate leaves, small white or purple flowers, and clusters of hairy pods with two to four seeds, native to eastern Asia and now cultivated worldwide.Soybean is now the more usual term in all varieties of English, including British English, where however soya bean remains commoner than in other varieties.Cf. soya n. 2, soy n.1 2.
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1854 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1853: Agric. p. vi in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (33rd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39, Pt. 2) VII Among the products proposed to be introduced from abroad, are rice and the soja bean of Japan, the latter of which is used for making the celebrated ‘Soy sauce’.
1897 Publ. Georgia Dept. Agric. 1896 64 A display of soja beans..a legume of exceptionally fine quality for stock feed.
1905 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 220/2 Soya beans..are grown all over Japan and in Manchuria.
1968 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Dicotyledons I. 265 Soya beans are one of the world's most important sources of oil and protein.
2020 Times 22 Aug. 19 The soya bean has become one of the world's fastest growing crops in the past 15 years due to a rise in meat consumption among the burgeoning Chinese middle class.
Compounds
C1. As a modifier, spec. designating food or drink products made or derived from soya beans, as in soya bean flour, soya bean milk, etc. Cf. soybean n. Compounds 1, soya n. Compounds 1a, soy n.1 Compounds 1a.
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1893 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Mar. 452/1 Each patient was for the whole period of observation kept upon a diet consisting each day of 20 soya bean biscuits, 2 eggs, 2 ounces of butter, [etc.].
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Apr. 14/2 In the cargo for Victoria was a shipment of 500 tubs of soya bean oil.
1944 V. Hodgson Diary 7 May in C. Driver British at Table (1983) ii. 16 I have an order with the Dairy for a pound of sausage... No taste much of sausage, but are of soya bean flour.
1977 G. Scott Hot Pursuit iii. 26 Drinking glass after glass of..soya bean milk bought from little carts at every corner.
2000 Gafta Newsletter (Grain & Feed Trade Assoc.) Apr. 4/2 Forecasts for 1999/00 put Brazilian soya bean exports at 8.7 million tonnes.
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soya bean curd n. a substance typically made from the curds of soy milk and formed into blocks, used chiefly in Asian and vegetarian or vegan cooking; = tofu n.
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1911 R. Farrar in Rep. Local Govt. Board of Public Health & Med. Subj. New Ser. No. 57. 4 Sometimes they [sc. the pigs] are given..the refuse expressed in the preparation of soya-bean curd.
1990 J. Candlish Dietary Imbalances, Metabolism & Dis. iii. 56 There are..fermented forms of soya bean curd, variously named..tempeh by the Indonesians and miso by the Japanese.
2020 @dododomochi 20 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Nov. 2021) For anyone curious it's a dessert made from soya bean curd mixed with sugar syrup.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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