lanolin

1. 1.

   a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics

   Synonymswool fatwool grease

   Broaderanimal oil
2. 2.

   an emollient containing wool fat (a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep)

   Broadercream

Other forms of lanolin

plural

lanolins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lanolin

What does lanolin mean?

lanolin means "a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lanolin?

lanolin has 3 syllables: lan-o-lin. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /ˈlænələn/.

What is another word for lanolin?

Close synonyms include wool fat, wool grease. 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 lanolin a common word?

lanolin 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.