linseed oil

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsflaxseed oil

   Broaderoil

Questions about linseed oil

What does linseed oil mean?

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

What is another word for linseed oil?

Close synonyms include flaxseed 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 linseed oil a common word?

linseed 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.