oilseed
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- noun
- /ˈɔɪlˌsiːd/
:
semilla oleaginosa
- The main items were oilseeds, wheat, food grains, and cotton goods.
- oilseed and grain
- oilseeds, including soybeans
- oilseed crop
Examples
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The region is also well-supplied with perennial oilseeds like oil palms, Brazil nuts, and avocados.
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In the United States, the growth of the biofuel industry has triggered increases not only in the prices of corn, oilseeds, and other grains but also in the prices of seemingly unrelated crops and products.
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Earnings per acre in grains, beans, and oilseeds are small, especially on poor soil with little rain and a short growing season.
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Crop farmers produced oilseeds, grains, other crops, and hay.
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Global production of biodiesel (most of it in Europe), made from oilseeds, was almost one billion gallons.
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Our global food system focuses primarily on annual grains, beans, oilseeds, and tubers.
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Hazels also have promise as oilseed for cold areas, yielding 0.4 tons per hectare.
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Pequi is one of the highest-producing oilseeds in the world (3.1 tons per hectare).
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Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) locally called til is an important conventional oilseed crop of Pakistan.
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Farmers are increasingly turning to oilseed crops like sunflower and canola for oil production.
Synonyms
A seed that contains a lot of oil used to make cooking oil and other oils
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word oilseed comes from the simple parts oil and seed, meaning a 'seed' used to make 'oil'. So an oilseed is a plant or its seed grown mainly so people can press out the oil.