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Vegetable oil   /vˈɛdʒtəbəl ɔɪl/   Listen
Vegetable oil

noun
1.
Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants.  Synonym: oil.






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"Vegetable oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... North and the huge mammals of the sea were slaughtered for their fat, and vegetable sources were cultivated. Later, sperm and colza were the most common oils used by the advanced races. The former is an animal oil obtained from the head cavities of the sperm-whale; the latter is a vegetable oil obtained from rape-seed. Mineral oil was introduced as an illuminant in 1853, and the modern lamp ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... States to Germany are mainly prime materials: approximately one hundred and sixty million dollars a year of cotton; seventy-five million dollars of copper; fifteen millions of wheat; twenty millions of animal fats; ten millions of mineral oil and a large amount of vegetable oil. Of course, the amount of wheat is especially variable. Some manufactured goods from America also find their way to Germany to the extent of perhaps seventy millions a year, comprising machinery such as typewriters and a miscellaneous line of machinery and manufactures. The principal ...
— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

... for which their shores have ever been famous, as the gum of a tree, hardened by the sun, and purified and wafted by the waves. When that singular substance is analyzed by the chemists, it yields a vegetable oil and a mineral acid.] ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... first stage of its development gave, at least, the basis of the ideal fat; namely, a purely vegetable product, differing from all others in that absolutely no animal fat had to be added to the vegetable oil to produce the proper stiffness. This was but one of the many distinctive ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil



Words linked to "Vegetable oil" :   cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, oleomargarine, salad oil, madia oil, soybean oil, oleo, sunflower-seed oil, cooking oil, walnut oil, copra oil, corn oil, peanut oil, palm oil, drying oil, canola, canola oil, marge, sesame oil, edible fat, groundnut oil, coconut oil, sweet oil, olive oil, margarine, soyabean oil, safflower oil, margarin



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