oilseed

English

Etymology

oil +‎ seed

Noun

oilseed (usually uncountable, plural oilseeds)

  1. The seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
    Hyponyms: linseed, rapeseed, cottonseed
    • 2022 May 19, “The coming food catastrophe”, in The Economist‎, →ISSN:
      Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped and Russia’s are threatened.
  2. The plant that yields such seed.

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