Soy

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1. Noun

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

2. Noun

The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.

3. Noun

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
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4. Noun

a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
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