groundnut oil

1. 1.

   an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap

   Synonymspeanut oil

   Broadervegetable oil

   United Kingdom

Questions about groundnut oil

What does groundnut oil mean?

groundnut oil means "an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap".

What is another word for groundnut oil?

Close synonyms include peanut 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 groundnut oil a common word?

groundnut 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.