soy /ˈsɔɪ/
醬油,大豆
Soy Soy·a n.
1. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soybeans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
2. Bot. The soybean.
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soy
n 1: a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as
food [syn: soybean, soya bean]
2: 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 [syn: soya, soybean,
soya bean, soybean plant, soja, soja bean, Glycine
max]
3: thin sauce made of fermented soy beans [syn: soy sauce]
4: most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known [syn: soybean]