資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, G. r["u]be.]
(Bot.)
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the
turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used
for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for
the food of cage birds.
Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been
variously named, but are all now believed to be derived
from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some
is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({B.
oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}.
{Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary.
{Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been
expressed from the seed.
{Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.
{Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.