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noun

Soya, Soy n.

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

(Bot.) The soybean.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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