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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
Origin Late 17th century: from Japanese soy, shoy, variant of shō-yu, from Chinese shi-yu, from shi ‘salted beans’ + yu ‘oil’. Rhymes ahoy, 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
Origin Late 17th century: from Japanese soy, shoy, variant of shō-yu, from Chinese shi-yu, from shi ‘salted beans’ + yu ‘oil’. |