fatty oil

  • 1fatty oil — n a fat that is liquid at ordinary temperatures and that is obtained from plants or marine animals called also fixed oil compare ESSENTIAL OIL, OIL (1), VOLATILE OIL …

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  • 2fatty oil — noun nonvolatile animal or plant oil • Syn: ↑fixed oil • Hypernyms: ↑oil …

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  • 3fatty oil. — Chem. See fixed oil. [1825 35] * * * …

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  • 4fatty oil. — Chem. See fixed oil. [1825 35] …

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  • 5oil — An inflammable liquid, of fatty consistency and unctuous feel, which is insoluble in water, soluble or insoluble in alcohol, and freely soluble in ether. Oils are variously classified as animal …

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  • 6fatty — adj. & n. adj. (fattier, fattiest) 1 like fat; oily, greasy. 2 consisting of or containing fat; adipose. 3 marked by abnormal deposition of fat, esp. in fatty degeneration. n. (pl. ies) colloq. a fat person (esp. as a nickname). Phrases and… …

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  • 7oil — vb Oil, grease, lubricate, anoint, cream all mean to smear or treat with an oily, fatty, or greasy substance, but they vary greatly in their implications of the substance used and the purpose for which it is employed and in their idiomatic… …

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  • 8Fatty alcohol — Fatty alcohols are aliphatic alcohols derived from natural fats and oils, originating in plants, but also synthesized in animals and algae. Their significance in nutrition and health has historically been overlooked, and is only now being… …

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  • 9Fatty — Fat ty, a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. [1913 Webster] {Fatty acid} (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; so called because the higher …

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  • 10Fatty acid — Fatty Fat ty, a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. [1913 Webster] {Fatty acid} (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; so called because the… …

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