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From Middle Englishrape sede, rape seed, equivalent to rape(“rapeseed plant(s)”) + seed. As a meronym for the entire plant, from the need to distinguish the plant from the etymologically unrelated verb and act rape. In this context, rape is from Latinrāpa, from rāpum(“turnip”).
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