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noun
Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oil, lipid, foodstuff
noun
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oil
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edible fat
Narrower terms: cooking oil, sweet oil, canola oil, canola, coconut oil, copra oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, olive oil, palm oil, peanut oil, groundnut oil, salad oil, safflower oil, sesame oil, soybean oil, soyabean oil, sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil, walnut oil, madia oil, drying oil
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