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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Soy

/(soi)/ · IPA /sɔɪ/
01 n. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soybeans), or beans and meal, to long fermentatio…
  1. 1.
    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.
  2. 2.
    The soybean.(Bot.) See: soybean