| vegetable oil | | |
| n. (food) | 1. oil, vegetable oil | any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. |
| ~ edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. |
| ~ margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine, margarin | a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. |
| ~ 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-seed oil, sunflower 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. |
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