rapeseed
noun [ U ] uk/ˈreɪp.siːd/ us/ˈreɪp.siːd/ (also rape, oilseed rape); (US also canola)
油菜
a plant with yellow flowers from which oil and animal food are produced
We tramped through fields of ripening rapeseed. 我们走着穿过成熟的油菜花田。
The country's rapeseed crop was last month damaged by extreme weather. 该国的油菜籽作物上个月因极端天气而受损。
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- Some traders are offering schemes to put rapeseed into store and sell it later.
- Farmers had unwittingly planted conventional rapeseed contaminated with GM material.
- Growing rapeseed on the land could produce bio-diesel to replace 50-60% of the tractor diesel used on the farm.