RAPESEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rapeseed mean? 

• RAPESEED (noun)
  The noun RAPESEED has 1 sense:

1. seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil

  Familiarity information: RAPESEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPESEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rapeseed" is a kind of...):

oil-rich seed; oilseed (any of several seeds that yield oil)

Meronyms (substance of "rapeseed"):

colza oil; rape oil; rapeseed oil (edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant)

Holonyms ("rapeseed" is a substance of...):

Brassica napus; colza; rape (Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop)

 Context examples 

Vegetable oil developed from rapeseed plant.

(Canola Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Milk protein-based energy drink is a flavored liquid that consists of milk protein, rapeseed and sunflower oils, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace-elements, providing 1.5kcal and 10 mg of protein per ml.

(Milk Protein-Based Energy Drink, NCI Thesaurus)

Rapeseed oil was traditionally used as an industrial lubricant but newer varieties are used for animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel.

(Brassica napus Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Their characterisation of Rider revealed that the Rider family is also present and potentially active in other plants, including economically important crops such as rapeseed, beetroot and quinoa.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)