noun
definition
The seed of the rape plant, Brassica napus, used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil.
definition
The rape plant itself.
Examples of rapeseed in a Sentence
Grain, fish, linseed, rapeseed, wool and hides are also exported.
Large herds of cattleare reared on the communal lands, which are productive also, of wheat, rapeseed and maize.
The great centres of the seed-oil trade (linseed, cotton-seed, rapeseed, castor-seed) are Hull, London, Liverpool, Bristol, Leith and Glasgow.
As an added bonus the farming communities of Germany & France are very happy indeed growing rapeseed and sunflower energy crops for biodiesel production!
Crops modified for male sterility include rapeseed, corn, tobacco, cotton.
However, he should avoid unrefined rapeseed or vegetable oils, because these may still contain the proteins that sensitive people can react to.
I grow double low rapeseed for food use and HEAR industrial rape which is poisonous to humans.
Raw materials of vegetable origin could also replace current ene.g. sources like diesel fuel and gasoline, e.g. rapeseed could be processed to biofuels.
Similar reductions have been seen in Canada with transgenic rapeseed, according to the Canola Council of Canada.
To evaluate high lauric rapeseed (Brassica napus) for National List Trial (NLT) purposes.
Like peas and beans the hard seed coat of rapeseed does not allow optimum penetration of Propcorn into the center of the seed.
We use plant sterols extracted from vegetable oils, such as sunflower seed or rapeseed.
As an added bonus the farming communities of Germany & France are very happy indeed growing rapeseed and sunflower energy crops for biodiesel production !
Raw materials of vegetable origin could also replace current energy sources like diesel fuel and gasoline, e.g. rapeseed could be processed to biofuels.
Walker says rapeseed oil can cost up to £ 373 per ton to buy, compared to used cooking oil at just £ 175.
One series of oral presentations centered on controlling diseases of rapeseed crops.
Under normal crop rotation any " volunteer " GM rapeseed plants which appeared would be tackled by spraying with another herbicide next spring.