rapeseed

«rapeseed» in Mova's school dictionary: a plant with bright yellow flowers, grown in fields for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (rapeseed — uncountable); also called rape, oilseed rape, canola

meaning for a pupil

1) Rapeseed is a plant with bright yellow flowers, grown in fields for its seeds. tree →

2) The oil pressed from these seeds is rapeseed oil, a common cooking oil (called canola oil in Canada, the USA and Australia). tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and farming lessons, spring fields of bright yellow rapeseed are a common sight in the UK and Europe; the crop gives cooking oil, animal feed and biofuel. "Canola" is a type of rapeseed bred in Canada. The name comes from Latin "rapum", meaning turnip, as the plant is related to turnips and cabbages.

examples

• The hills were covered in bright yellow rapeseed. tree →
• Mum fries potatoes in rapeseed oil. tree →
• Bees love the flowers of rapeseed. tree →
• Rapeseed belongs to the cabbage family. tree →
• In Canada rapeseed oil is called canola oil. tree →
• The farmer will harvest the rapeseed in summer. tree →
• Rapeseed fields can make some people sneeze. tree →

note

Uncountable. The "rape" in rapeseed comes from a Latin word for turnip; it has nothing to do with the crime. Farmers often say "oilseed rape" or just "rape" for the crop; "canola" is the North American and Australian name.

In the corpora

• Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rapeseed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.