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OILSEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oilseed mean?
• OILSEED (noun)
The noun OILSEED has 1 sense:
1. any of several seeds that yield oil
Familiarity information: OILSEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several seeds that yield oil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
oil-rich seed; oilseed
Hypernyms ("oilseed" is a kind of...):
seed (a small hard fruit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oilseed"):
castor bean (the toxic seed of the castor-oil plant; source of castor oil)
cottonseed (seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil)
candlenut (seed of candlenut tree; source of soil used in varnishes)
rapeseed (seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil)
flaxseed; linseed (the seed of flax used as a source of oil)
Context examples
Cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea, is an important grain legume and oilseed crop, with a total global production area of approximately 59 million acres.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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