soybean flour
- noun
- /ˈsɔɪˌbiːn flɔːr/
:
harina de soya
- Soybean flour is available, and a handful thrown in with the maize meal (mealie meal) as it is cooked adds significantly to the quality of the diet.
Examples
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Using soybean flour in gluten-free recipes allows bakers to create delicious and nutritious foods.
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I replaced regular flour with soybean flour to make my cookies healthier and gluten-free.
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When making pancakes, you can use soybean flour for a nutritious alternative to wheat flour.
Synonyms
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2.5
A fine powder made from ground soybeans used as an ingredient in baking
How Fine
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3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'flour made by grinding soybeans' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'soybean' (the legume) with 'flour' (a finely ground powder); the first noun specifies the source of the flour. This noun–noun compounding pattern (source + product) is common cross-linguistically (e.g., 'harina de soja', 'farine de soja') and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun soybean flour comes from the simple picture of grinding soybeans into a fine powder like wheat flour. So the name shows it is a 'flour' made from soy and explains why cooks use it as a high-protein, gluten-free ingredient.