flaxseed oil

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   a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints

   Synonymslinseed oil

   Broaderoil

Questions about flaxseed oil

What does flaxseed oil mean?

flaxseed oil means "a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints".

What is another word for flaxseed oil?

Close synonyms include linseed oil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flaxseed oil a common word?

flaxseed 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.