dolphin oil

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   an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about dolphin oil

What does dolphin oil mean?

dolphin oil means "an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant".

Is dolphin oil a common word?

dolphin 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.