oil meal
1oil meal — oil cake ground into small particles for livestock feed. [1885 90] * * * …
2oil meal — noun ground oil cake • Hypernyms: ↑oil cake * * * noun : a meal made by grinding oil cake and fed to livestock or used as fertilizer * * * oil cake ground into small particles for livestock feed. [1885 90] * * * n. ground oil cake …
3oil meal — noun ground oilcake …
4soybean oil meal — noun or soybean meal : the ground protein rich residue from the production of soybean oil used chiefly in animal feeds, in adhesives and plastics, in making synthetic protein fibers, and in fermentation media (as for the production of… …
5oil cake — noun mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock • Hypernyms: ↑feed, ↑provender • Hyponyms: ↑oil meal • Substance Meronyms: ↑field soybean * * * noun …
6oil — n. & v. n. 1 any of various thick, viscous, usu. inflammable liquids insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents (see also essential oil, fixed oil, mineral oil, volatile oil). 2 US petroleum. 3 (in comb.) using oil as fuel (oil heater). 4 …
7oil cake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock. [1735 45] * * * ▪ chemistry coarse residue obtained after oil is removed from various oilseeds, rich in… …
8Oil palm — African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …
9oil plant — ▪ botany any of the numerous plants, either under cultivation or growing wild, used as sources of oil. Oil plants include trees such as palm, herbaceous plants such as flax, and even fungi (Fusarium). Vegetable oils are used… …
10oil extraction — ▪ chemistry isolation of oil from animal by products, fleshy fruits such as the olive and palm, and oilseeds such as cottonseed, sesame seed, soybeans, and peanuts. Oil is extracted by three general methods: rendering, used with animal… …
