vegetable oil
Noun
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Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants (synset 107689142)
is a type of: edible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissuesubtypes:
- 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
substance meronym: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for buttersame as: oil
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