English > animal oil: 1 sense > noun 1, substance| Meaning | Any oil obtained from animal substances. |
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| Narrower | blubber | An insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals |
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| bone oil, Dippel's oil | dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone |
| bone oil | The liquid portion of bone fat |
| cod-liver oil, cod liver oil | An oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes |
| dolphin oil | An unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant |
| drying oil | An oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base |
| fish-liver oil, fish oil | A fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish |
| glyceride, acylglycerol | 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 |
| lanolin, wool fat, wool grease | A yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool |
| 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 |
| oleo oil | obtained from beef fat |
| porpoise oil | A yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant |
| salmon oil | A fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon |
| 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 |
| shark oil, shark-liver oil | A fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks |
| 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 |
| whale oil, train oil | A white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber |
| wool oil | Any oil used to oil wool before spinning |
| Broader | animal material | material derived from animals |
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| oil | A slippery or viscous liquid / liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water |
| Spanish | aceite animal |
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| Catalan | oli animal |
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