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Definition: Rapeseed |
RapeseedNoun1. Seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Rapeseed |
| English words defined with "rapeseed": canola oil, colza oil ♦ rape oil, rapeseed oil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rapeseed": Glucosinolates ♦ Oilseed crops. (references) |
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It is cultivated in northern climates (primarily in Canada, Germany, France, and the Netherlands) for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel. Rapeseed is a major crop in India, grown on 13% of cropped land there. According to the USDA, rapeseed was the third leading source of vegetable oil in the world in 2000, after soy and palm. The same source calls rapeseed the world's second leading source of protein meal, although only one-fifth of the production of the leading soy meal. In Europe, rapeseed is primarily cultivated for animal feed (due to its very high lipidic and medium proteinic content), and is the leading option for Europeans to avoid dependance from the American soya, as well as to avoid importation of GMO soya beans.
Natural rapeseed oil contains erucic acid, which is mildly toxic to humans in large doses but is used as a food additive in smaller doses. Canola is a specific variety of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content. Canola was developed in Canada and its name is a combination of "Canada" and "Oil". The name was also chosen partly for obvious marketing reasons.
The rapeseed is the valuable, harvested component of the crop. The crop is also grown as a winter-cover crop. It provides good coverage of the soil in winter, and limit nitrogen run-off. The plant is ploughed back in the soil or used as bedding.
Processing of rape seed for oil production provides a rapeseed animal meal as a by-product. The by-product is a high-protein animal feed, competitive with soya. The feed is mostly employed for cattle feeding, but also for pigs and chicken (though less valuable for these). The animal by-product has a low content in glucosinolates (responsible for metabolism disruption in cattle and pigs).
Rapeseed has been linked with adverse effects in asthma and hayfever sufferers. Some suggest that oilseed pollen is the cause of increased breathing difficulties. Others suggest that it is the inhalation of oilseed rape dust that causes this, and that allergies to the pollen are relatively rare. There is also some recent evidence that the extensive use of this and similar vegetable oils in food is leading to a significant increase in cases of macular degeneration of the eye.
Some varieties of rapeseed are sold as greens in asian groceries.
See also: biosafety
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rapeseed."
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Economic History | Poland | Poland also is a significant producer of rapeseed, grains, hogs, and cattle. (references) |
Finland | Agriculture (3% of GDP): Products--meat (pork and beef), grain (wheat, rye, barley, oats), dairy products, potatoes, rapeseed. (references) | |
West Bank | WB/G locally produce and use large quantities of olive oil, but not other processed oils favored by Palestinian consumers, so moderate prospects exist for importing soy, corn, sunflower, and rapeseed oils. (references) | |
Trade | Poland | Tariff rate within quotas represent significant import protection for products such as beef, pork, poultry meat, wheat and rye flours, rapeseed oil, some processed food products, yeast, sauces, alcohol, tobacco, and tobacco products. (references) |
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| "Rapeseed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Rapeseed" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "rapeseed": rapeseed oil. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "rapeseed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 油菜籽. (various references) | |
Danish | rapskage (colza cake, rapeseed cake), enkeltlav raps (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), dobbeltlav raps (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed). (various references) | |
Dutch | ravisonolie (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil), raapzaad dubbel nul (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed), koolzaadkoek (colza cake, rapeseed cake). (various references) | |
Finnish | rypsiöljy (coltza oil, colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil, ravison oil), rapsipuriste (colza cake, rapeseed cake), rapsikakku (colza cake, rapeseed cake), rapsiöljy (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil), kasviöljy (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil). (various references) | |
French | tourteau de colza (rapeseed cake), huile de ravison (rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil), huile de colza pauvre en acide érucique (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), huile de colza (rape seed oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil), colza simple-zéro (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), colza nouveau (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), colza "double zéro", colza (low erucic acid rapeseed oil, rape, swede rape). (various references) | |
German | Ravison-Oil (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil), Rapskuchen (colza cake, rapeseed cake), ueblicher Raps (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), Pflanzenöl (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil, vegetable oil), OO Raps (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed), erucasaeurearmer Raps (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), Doppelnull-Raps (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed). (various references) | |
Greek | κραμβέλαιο (coltza oil, colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil, ravison oil). (various references) | |
Italian | panello di colza (colza cake, rapeseed cake), olio di ravizzone (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil, ravison oil), olio di colza a basso tenore di acido erucico (low erucic acid rapeseed oil), olio di colza (rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil), colza a zero erucico (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed), colza a doppio zero (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed), colza a doppio basso (double zero colza, double-low colza, double-low rapeseed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 菜種 (coleseed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なたね (coleseed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apeseedray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bolo de colza (colza cake, rapeseed cake), bagaço de colza (colza cake, rapeseed cake), óleo de colza (colza, colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil, ravison oil). (various references) | |
Russian | рапсовое семя (rape-seed). (various references) | |
Spanish | torta de colza (colza cake, rapeseed cake). (various references) | |
Swedish | rovolja (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, ravison oil), rapsolja (colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rape-seed oil, ravison oil), rapskaka (colza cake, rapeseed cake). (various references) | |
Turkish | kolza tohumu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rapeseed": rapeseeds. (additional references) | |
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"Rapeseed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rapiered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rapeseed" (pronounced rā"psē'd) |
| 3 | -s ē' d | aniseed, cottonseed, flaxseed, linseed, oilseed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: respade, speared, speeder, speered. | |
-2 letters: deeper, drapes, erased, padres, pardee, parsed, peered, pesade, rasped, reaped, reseda, reseed, seared, seeder, seeped, serape, spader, spared, spread. | |
-3 letters: aedes, apers, apres, asper, dares, dears, deeps, deers, drape, drees, eared, eased, epees, erase, padre, pards, pared, pares, parse, pears, pease, pedes, peers, perea, perse, prase, preed, prees, presa, prese, raped, rapes, rased, reads, reaps, redes, reeds, resee, saree, seder, sered, spade, spaed, spare, spear, speed, speer, spree. | |
-4 letters: aped, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, daps, dare, dear, deep, deer, dees, dere, dree, ears, ease, epee, eras, pads, pard, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peds, peed, peer, pees, pree, rads, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, rede, reds, reed, rees, reps, sade, sard, sear, seed, seep, seer, sera, sere, spae, spar, sped. | |
-5 letters: ads, ape, are, ars, asp, dap, dee, ear, eds, era, ere, ers, pad, par, pas, pea, ped, pee, per, pes, rad, rap, ras, red, ree, rep, res, sad, sae, sap, sea, see, ser, spa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: departees, desperate, rapeseeds. | |
+2 letters: deprecates, depredates, espaliered, precreased, predecease, repleaders. | |
+3 letters: bespattered, carpetweeds, depreciates, desperadoes, desperately, exasperated, newspapered, pederasties, predeceased, predeceases, prediabetes, premeasured, replastered, spearheaded, spreadsheet, superheated, supersedeas. | |
+4 letters: dappernesses, decrepitates, depravedness, depravements, deuteranopes, distemperate, eavesdropped, eavesdropper, leopardesses, overpersuade, perseverated, preassembled, prebendaries, predeceasing, predesignate, predestinate, premeditates, preparedness, reemphasized, spreadsheets, tradespeople. | |
+5 letters: depersonalize, desperateness, doublespeaker, eavesdroppers, exasperatedly, interpleaders, overpersuaded, overpersuades, parenthesized, peradventures, preadolescent, predepartures, predesignated, predesignates, predestinated, predestinates, preponderates, stereographed, supercalender, superelevated, superhardened, underemphases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 70 65 73 65 65 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .--. . ... . . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a p e s e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0070 0065 0073 0065 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267827185717170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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