| vegetable oil n. Any of various oils obtained from plants and used in food products and industrially. |
vegetable oil
n
(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of a group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol and are obtained from plants
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| Noun | 1. |  vegetable oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plantsedible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine, margarin - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter cooking oil - any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking sweet oil - mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil canola, canola oil - vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids coconut oil, copra oil - oil from coconuts corn oil - oil from the germs of corn grains cottonseed oil - edible oil pressed from cottonseeds olive oil - oil from olives palm oil - oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm groundnut oil, peanut oil - an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap salad oil - any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings safflower oil - oil from seeds of the safflower plant sesame oil - oil obtained from sesame seeds soyabean oil, soybean oil - oil from soya beans sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil - oil from sunflower seeds walnut oil - oil from walnuts madia oil - used as a substitute for olive oil drying oil - an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base |
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