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Definitions for rapeseed
ˈreɪpˌsidrape·seed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rapeseednoun

    seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil

Wiktionary

  1. rapeseednoun

    The rape plant, Brassica napus, which produces a grain that is used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil.

  2. rapeseednoun

    The seed of such plant.

Wikipedia

  1. Rapeseed

    Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape, or oilseed rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of erucic acid. The term canola denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars which were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.

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  1. rapeseed

    Rapeseed is a bright yellow flowering plant belonging to the mustard and cabbage family, Brassicaceae. It's cultivated primarily for its oil-rich seeds which are the third-largest source of vegetable oil in the world. The name is derived from the Latin for turnip, rāpa, and its seeds have been used in oil production for thousands of years. The major producers of rapeseed include Canada, China, India, and European countries.

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  1. Rapeseed

    Rapeseed, also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae. The name derives from the Latin for turnip, rāpa or rāpum, and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century. Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and long, respectively. See also Brassica napobrassica, which may be considered a variety of Brassica napus. Some botanists include the closely related Brassica campestris within B. napus.. Brassica napus is cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, the third largest source of vegetable oil in the world.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapeseed in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapeseed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of rapeseed in a Sentence

  1. Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts:

    Poland's total rapeseed crop may not be higher than 2.0 to 2.1 million tonnes, down 27 percent from 2017.

  2. Darin Friedrichs:

    It’s hard to see how this changes anything. If it was economical to switch to barley and rapeseed meal for rations, then firms would have already done it, the volume of soybeans the U.S. can load in a single day is larger than the yearly global export volume of cottonseed meal.

  3. Deepak Pental:

    Oil and rapeseed meal of transgenic rapeseed have been consumed very extensively from 1996 onwards (outside India), if in spite of all this the material (GM mustard) is not released - that means we have fallen prey to whims and fancies of extreme ideologues.

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