English Explanatory Dictionary

rapeseed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The seed of the rape plant (Brassica napus), used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil.
  2. The rape plant itself.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rapeseed.wav

Word forms

rapeseed rapeseeds rape seed rape-seed

Etymology

From Middle English rape sede, rape seed, equivalent to rape (“rapeseed plant(s)”) + seed. As a meronym for the entire plant, from the need to distinguish the plant from the etymologically unrelated verb and act rape. In this context, rape is from Latin rāpa, from rāpum (“turnip”).

Synonyms

rape canola

Derived words

rapeseed oil

Translations

Armenian: սևուկ Azerbaijani: raps Breton: kolzaenn Bulgarian: ра́пица Catalan: colza Chinese Mandarin: 油菜 Czech: řepka Dutch: koolzaad Finnish: rapsi French: colza Georgian: თალგამურა German: Raps German: Ackersenf German: Wilder Senf Ancient Greek: βουνιάς Hebrew: לפתית Hindi: कैनोला Hungarian: repce Italian: colza Japanese: 菜の花 Kazakh: рапс Korean: 유채 Korean: 평지 Northern Kurdish: kolza Latin: nāpus Latvian: rapsis Lithuanian: rapsas Occitan: còlza Persian: کلزا Polish: rzepak Portuguese: canola Romanian: rapiță Russian: рапс Scots: raps Slovak: repka olejná Slovene: oljna ogrščica Spanish: canola Spanish: colza Swedish: raps Tatar: рапс Thai: ผักกาดก้านขาว Turkish: kanola Turkish: kolza Ukrainian: ріпак Uzbek: raps
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