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# rapeseed

«rapeseed» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant with bright yellow flowers, grown in fields for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rapeseed — uncountable); also called rape, oilseed rape, canola

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rapeseed is a plant with bright yellow flowers, grown in fields for its seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#m1)

2) The oil pressed from these seeds is rapeseed oil, a common cooking oil (called canola oil in Canada, the USA and Australia). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and farming lessons, spring fields of bright yellow rapeseed are a common sight in the UK and Europe; the crop gives cooking oil, animal feed and biofuel. "Canola" is a type of rapeseed bred in Canada. The name comes from Latin "rapum", meaning turnip, as the plant is related to turnips and cabbages.

### examples

- The hills were covered in bright yellow rapeseed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x1)
- Mum fries potatoes in rapeseed oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x2)
- Bees love the flowers of rapeseed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x3)
- Rapeseed belongs to the cabbage family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x4)
- In Canada rapeseed oil is called canola oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x5)
- The farmer will harvest the rapeseed in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x6)
- Rapeseed fields can make some people sneeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. The "rape" in rapeseed comes from a Latin word for turnip; it has nothing to do with the crime. Farmers often say "oilseed rape" or just "rape" for the crop; "canola" is the North American and Australian name.

### In the corpora

- [Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rapeseed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rapeseed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.