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In addition, many government officials, industry representatives and farmers contend that the European Union’s rules are really a form of economic protectionism, a way to shield European farmers who grow competing oilseed crops like rapeseed or soybeans.
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Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Foods in development include rapeseed (a.k.a. canola) cakes, the solid byproduct formed when oil is extracted from the crop, of which 36.8 million tons are produced each year.
—Charlotte Lytton, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
Ranges surrounded by fields of sunflowers and rapeseed are abuzz with new contraptions, which undergo a battery of tests before being cleared for the war.
—Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
Pressed from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is similar to vegetable oil in flavor, color, smoke point, and usage qualities.
—Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
Russia and Ukraine are two of the world’s top agricultural producers, and major players in the wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, rapeseed oil, sunflower seed and sunflower oil markets.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
The highway that leads you away from Billund Airport toward the small city of Vejle runs through vast fields of piercingly bright, sharp-yellow rapeseed flowers broken only by occasional wooden farm buildings painted in the distinctive, flat red so redolent of southern Scandinavia.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 July 2023
In Lützen, a town of 8,000 set amid rapeseed fields, officials spent more than $17,000 painting their Soviet monument just days after Mr. Scholz committed to delivering the country’s newest air-defense system to Ukraine.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
Olive oil is most often mixed with cheaper oils made from soybeans, corn, hazelnuts, or rapeseed, which can be dangerous for people with allergies.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Foods in development include rapeseed (a.k.a. canola) cakes, the solid byproduct formed when oil is extracted from the crop, of which 36.8 million tons are produced each year.
—Charlotte Lytton, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
Ranges surrounded by fields of sunflowers and rapeseed are abuzz with new contraptions, which undergo a battery of tests before being cleared for the war.
—Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
Pressed from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is similar to vegetable oil in flavor, color, smoke point, and usage qualities.
—Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
Russia and Ukraine are two of the world’s top agricultural producers, and major players in the wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, rapeseed oil, sunflower seed and sunflower oil markets.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
The highway that leads you away from Billund Airport toward the small city of Vejle runs through vast fields of piercingly bright, sharp-yellow rapeseed flowers broken only by occasional wooden farm buildings painted in the distinctive, flat red so redolent of southern Scandinavia.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 July 2023
In Lützen, a town of 8,000 set amid rapeseed fields, officials spent more than $17,000 painting their Soviet monument just days after Mr. Scholz committed to delivering the country’s newest air-defense system to Ukraine.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
Olive oil is most often mixed with cheaper oils made from soybeans, corn, hazelnuts, or rapeseed, which can be dangerous for people with allergies.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
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rapeseed
noun
rape·seed
ˈrāp-ˌsēd 
: the seed of the rape plant (Brassica napus of the mustard family) that is the source of rapeseed oil
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