vegetable oil

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Noun

vegetable oil (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable oils)

  1. Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels.
    Hypernyms: oil; lipid; foodstuff
    Hyponyms: olive oil, palm oil; others at seed oil
    Coordinate terms: (oil types) mineral oil; petroleum; motor oil; fuel oil

Usage notes

In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil.

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