: a hairy annual Asian legume (Glycine max) widely grown for its oil-rich proteinaceous seeds and for forage and soil improvement
also: its seed
Illustration of soybean
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe competition in the early days began with horse pulls when plow horses would pull the sled, said Brummel, a corn and soybean farmer in Hinckley. Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 This week, the family was pulling irrigation pipes out of its corn and soybean fields in preparation for harvesting beginning next month. Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022 But this is about more than increasing US soybean exports. Christine Mcdaniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 Midwestern grain, sorghum and soybean exports were the worst affected. Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 25 Nov. 2021 China was also the No. 1 destination for U.S. soybean exports and one of the top buyers of corn. Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021 In the middle of the state’s vast expanses of corn and soybean fields, a new plant factory is taking shape. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022 Rat sightings are again common at the warehouse, a low-slung building of 850,000 square feet near soybean fields, a FedEx Corp. trucking yard and two interstate highways.Arkansas Online, 24 July 2022 The most common types are soybean peptides, silk fibroin peptides, and rice peptides. Sarah Madaus, SELF, 27 July 2022 See More