English > vegetable oil: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. |
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| Synonym | oil |
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| Narrower | canola oil, canola | vegetable oil made from rapeseed |
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| coconut oil, copra oil | oil from coconuts |
| cooking oil | Any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking |
| corn oil | oil from the germs of corn grains |
| cottonseed oil | edible oil pressed from cottonseeds |
| drying oil | An oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base |
| madia oil | Used as a substitute for olive oil |
| olive oil | oil from olives |
| palm oil | oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm |
| peanut oil, groundnut oil | An oil from peanuts |
| safflower oil | oil from seeds of the safflower plant |
| salad oil | Any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings |
| sesame oil | oil obtained from sesame seeds |
| soybean oil, soyabean oil | oil from soya beans |
| sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil | oil from sunflower seeds |
| sweet oil | mild vegetable oil when used as food |
| walnut oil | oil from walnuts |
| Broader | edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue |
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| Substance of | margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge | A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter |
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| Spanish | aceite, aceite vegetal |
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| Catalan | oli vegetal |
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