soja bean

Questions about soja bean

What does soja bean mean?

soja bean 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 soja bean?

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 soja bean a common word?

soja bean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.