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soybean meal

soybean meal

1 3.0
A coarse powder made by grinding soybeans used to feed animals or add protein to food
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔɪˌbiːn miːl/
translation icon : harina de soya
  • The birds were fed with a conventional corn soybean meal diet (2942.46 kcal ME/kg, 20.75% CP).
  • corn and soybean meal

Examples

  • Increasing these nutrients in corn fed to livestock could reduce the need for more expensive soybean meal used to balance rations.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Many farmers use soybean meal as a high-protein animal feed to improve livestock growth.

  • Price competition from soybean meal continues.

    Academic text (1991)

  • High protein feed is essential, and in our case does include soybean meal.

    Blog text (23)

  • Historically, the price of DDGS has been highly correlated with the price of corn and soybean meal.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Potential high-protein substitutes for fishmeal include soybean meal, wheat, and corn.

    Academic text (1999)

  • "We just had a crop report today, which indicated a significant reduction in corn production as well as bean production, lower forecast for wheat, soybean, soybean oil, soybean meal, and corn, lower forecast for milk, beef, pork, broilers, and turkey."

    Blog text (6)

  • The catfish farmer included soybean meal in his feed formula to ensure the fish received enough nutrients.

  • To create a balanced diet for his chickens, he mixed grains with soybean meal for added protein.

Synonyms

meal
vssoybean meal
133 4.6

Grain ground into small pieces used for cooking or eating

is produced from a specific legume crop for animal feed or as an ingredient
mealing
vssoybean meal
  • Archaic
9.6

Powder made from grain used for food and animal feed

is made from one specific legume crop rather than mixed grains

How Fine

soybean meal
1 3.0

Surface Forms

soybean meal singular
soybean meals plural

Morphology

soybean + meal

The meaning 'a powder made by grinding soybeans' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'soybean' (the source) with 'meal' (ground product) as a regular noun–noun compound. This is a transparent, cross-linguistically common compounding pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.

Etymology

Soybean meal comes from the simple image of a soybean made into meal: the beans are pressed and ground into a coarse 'powder' that farmers used as 'animal feed', so the phrase now means the ground soybean product used in feed or food.