Dictionaries › English

soybean

Pronunciation: /ˈsɔɪˌbin/

The English word “soybean” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.
  2. The edible seed of this plant.

Etymology

From soy + bean.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “soybean” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.