halibut-liver oil

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   a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about halibut-liver oil

What does halibut-liver oil mean?

halibut-liver oil means "a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A".

Is halibut-liver oil a common word?

halibut-liver 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.