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VEGETABLE OIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

Synonyms:

oil; vegetable oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("vegetable oil" is a kind of...):

edible fat (oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetable oil"):

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)

walnut oil (oil from walnuts)

sunflower-seed oil; sunflower oil (oil from sunflower seeds)

soyabean oil; soybean oil (oil from soya beans)

sesame oil (oil obtained from sesame seeds)

safflower oil (oil from seeds of the safflower plant)

salad oil (any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings)

groundnut oil; peanut oil (an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap)

palm oil (oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm)

olive oil (oil from olives)

cottonseed oil (edible oil pressed from cottonseeds)

corn oil (oil from the germs of corn grains)

coconut oil; copra oil (oil from coconuts)

canola; canola oil (vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids)

sweet oil (mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil)

cooking oil (any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking)

Holonyms ("vegetable oil" is a substance of...):

margarin; margarine; marge; oleo; oleomargarine (a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter)

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 Context examples: 

A vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of the castor bean, Ricinus communis.

(Castor Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil in the world with total sales in 2018 topping US$30 billion dollars, contributes greatly to the GDP of several tropical countries.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)