soybean plant
- noun
- /ˈsɔɪˌbiːn plænt/
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planta de soja
- After the season ended, he carefully stored the soybean plants to preserve the seeds for next year's planting.
So to my knowledge, human beings have never eaten the roots of soybeans, especially the nodules on the roots of mature soybean plants.
- So to my knowledge, human beings have never eaten the roots of soybeans, especially the nodules on the roots of mature soybean plants.
- This is to say, if all the soybean plants come to go to flower at the same time, the bees have to work that whole deal.
Examples
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"It may involve finding the genes involved in producing glyceollins," Bou says, "or developing sprays or elicitor treatments that can be safely applied to soybean plants themselves."
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This is to say, if all the soybean plants come to go to flower at the same time, the bees have to work that whole deal.
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It's because today's soybean plants aren't getting enough stress.
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PHOTO (COLOR): To determine the effect of elevated CO2 on plant growth, University of Illinois students harvest aboveground growth of soybean plants.
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GMO in and of itself is not bad and is just a tool, no different than selecting pollen from one plant to pollinate another plant, but I am totally against taking genes from some other animal or plant and splicing them into corn or soybean plants.
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PHOTO (COLOR): Plant pathologist Glen Hartman inspects soybean plants for disease symptoms that resemble rust.
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The farmer decided to expand his field to grow more soybean plants, as they are highly profitable.
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During summer, many soybean plants bloom with beautiful purple flowers that attract bees.
Synonyms
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1.2
A plant that produces edible seeds used for food, oil, and animal feed
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A plant grown for its beans used to make food, animal feed, and oil
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A bushy plant that makes beans used for food and oil
A bushy plant grown for small edible seeds used for food and oil
A plant also called soybean that is grown for edible seeds used for food and oil
A plant with seeds used to make food, oil, and animal feed
A bushy plant that makes oil-rich seeds used for food and animal feed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'soybean' names the crop/species and 'plant' is the general category, so 'soybean plant' simply denotes the plant that produces soybeans. This is a transparent noun-noun combination following common compounding patterns (and mirrored in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Soybean plant is a simple compound of soybean and plant, meaning the plant that produces soybeans. Picture a bushy plant covered in small pods full of beans used for food and oil, so the phrase means 'the plant that makes soybeans'.