animal oil

1. 1.

   any oil obtained from animal substances

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Questions about animal oil

What does animal oil mean?

animal oil means "any oil obtained from animal substances".

Is animal oil a common word?

animal oil 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.