menhaden oil

1. 1.

   a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about menhaden oil

What does menhaden oil mean?

menhaden oil means "a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather".

Is menhaden oil a common word?

menhaden 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.