OILSEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oilseed mean? 

• OILSEED (noun)
  The noun OILSEED has 1 sense:

1. any of several seeds that yield oil

  Familiarity information: OILSEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OILSEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several seeds that yield oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

oil-rich seed; oilseed

Hypernyms ("oilseed" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oilseed"):

castor bean (the toxic seed of the castor-oil plant; source of castor oil)

cottonseed (seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil)

candlenut (seed of candlenut tree; source of soil used in varnishes)

rapeseed (seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil)

flaxseed; linseed (the seed of flax used as a source of oil)

 Context examples 

Cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea, is an important grain legume and oilseed crop, with a total global production area of approximately 59 million acres.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)