glycine max

Questions about glycine max

What does glycine max mean?

glycine max means "erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia".

What is another word for glycine max?

Close synonyms include soy, soya, soybean, soya bean, soybean plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glycine max a common word?

glycine max is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.