an annual or biennial yellow-flowered herb, a variety of Brassica napus or a closely related species, belonging to the family Cruciferę, widely cultivated in Europe, North America, and Japan and used as cattle fodder or the source of a seed yielding an edible oil; also known as cole or coleseed. There has been much confusion between rape and coleseed, either plant being known under both names; the former is sometimes called winter rape and the latter summer rape., botaaniliselt kaalika teisend; väliselt üsna sarnane kapsasrohu perekonda kuuluvate teistekollaseõielistetaimedega nagu must sinep, sarepta sinep ja õlinaeris, ristõieline sinakasroheliste lehtedega õli- ja söödataim, õlikaalikas