Also 7 saio, 9 sooja, soja. [a. Du. soya, soja: see SOY1.] = SOY1 1, 2.
In recent use also attrib., as soya-bean, -oil, -plant.
1679. J. Locke, Jrnl., in Ld. King, Life (1830), I. 249. Mango and saio are two sorts of sauces brought from the East Indies.
1771. J. R. Forster, trans. Osbeck’s Voy., I. 253. The Japan Soya is better and dearer than the Chinese.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXII. 194/1. The Japanese … likewise prepare with them [seeds of Soja hispida] the sauce termed Sooja, which has been corrupted into Soy.
1866. Treas. Bot., 537/1. The Sooja of the Japanese, G[lycine] Soja, the only erect species of the genus, a dwarf annual hairy plant.
