animal fat

1. 1.

   any fat obtained from animals

   “animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids”

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Questions about animal fat

What does animal fat mean?

animal fat means "any fat obtained from animals".

Is animal fat a common word?

animal fat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.