soy

Speech parts

1. soy - Noun

2. Soy - Proper noun

Meaning

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

soya soja soybean soya bean soy sauce soja bean Glycine max soybean plant salt pepper bean spice condiment vegetable soylent

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Hypernyms

bean condiment legume leguminous plant edible bean

Hyponyms

field soybean

Phrases with the word

soy oil soy based fermented soy soy wax soy beans soy cheese

Examples

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house. Federico García Lorca

If another one of my Whole-Foods friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. Patton Oswalt

I pity the fool who drinks soy milk. Mr. T

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things. Martin Yan

Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning. Martin Yan

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice. Anthony Bourdain

Close letter words and terms

Soxhlet apparatus Soxhlet extraction Soxhlet extractor soy based soy bean soy bean oil