animal oil

Noun
  1. Any oil obtained from animal substances (synset 114779256)
    is a type of:
    • animal material - material derived from animals
    • oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
    subtypes:
    • drying oil - an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base
    • blubber - an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil
    • bone oil, dippel's oil - dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
    • bone oil - the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
    • cod liver oil, cod-liver oil - an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D
    • lanolin, wool fat, wool grease - a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics
    • fish oil, fish-liver oil - a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish
    • acylglycerol, glyceride - an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils
    • goose grease - grease derived from geese
    • halibut-liver oil - a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A
    • lard oil - oil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant
    • menhaden oil - a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather
    • neat's-foot oil - a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather
    • oleo oil - obtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication
    • porpoise oil - a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant
    • dolphin oil - an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant
    • salmon oil - a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather
    • sardine oil - oil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap
    • seal oil - a pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant
    • shark oil, shark-liver oil - a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A
    • sperm oil - an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale
    • tallow - obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
    • tallow oil - an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant
    • train oil, whale oil - a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant
    • wool oil - any oil used to oil wool before spinning

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