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soyabean oil

soyabean oil

1 2.0
A cooking oil made from soybeans
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔɪəˌbin ɔɪl/
  • US
translation icon : aceite de soya
  • The recipe calls for using soyabean oil to create a light and tasty stir-fry.

And these include canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil.

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Examples

  • Many commercial salad dressings are made with soyabean oil for its flavor and health benefits.

  • At present, the most important U.S. agricultural export is soybeans; the most important U.S. cooking oil is soybean oil, and the most important protein source for animal food in the United States—more likely, in the whole world—is soymeal.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Yeah, all of those markers were increased in people eating the higher soybean oil diet.

  • Its unique oil could be used as a fuel source without the chemical modification required of soybean oil.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Each bar also has lactose, soybean oil, and milk fat.

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  • They do use soybean oil and a lot of their facial products.

  • And that sunflower oil and soybean oil were also two oils that had strong healthy properties.

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  • Brazil has more recently begun to target increased use of biodiesel fuels, primarily derived from soybean oil.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Also in May, the Olympian station in San Francisco started selling B100, which is pure soybean oil without the glycerin component.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Petroleum diesel has an energy ratio of 0.83, compared with that of biodiesel made from soybean oil, which ranges from 1.93 to 3.21.

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

cooking oil
vssoyabean oil
7 1.0

Oil from plants or seeds used to cook food

is specific to oil from one type of seed rather than any plant oil
soybean oil
vssoyabean oil
1.6

A light yellow oil from soybeans that people use for cooking

is the same in meaning but represented by an alternative spelling form

Surface Forms

soyabean oil singular
soyabean oils plural
soybean oils plural
soybean oil singular

Morphology

soyabean + oil

The meaning 'edible oil extracted from soybeans' is transparently derivable from the constituents 'soyabean' (soy/bean) + 'oil' — a B1 learner who knows the component words can infer this is the oil made from soybeans. Compounds of the form <plant/seed> + oil are cross-linguistically common and the spelling variant 'soyabean' does not change the straightforward compositional interpretation.

Etymology

Soyabean oil is a simple name: it comes from pressing the soyabean to get the oil. So, soyabean oil means 'an edible oil made from soyabeans' and is commonly used for cooking.