mineral oil

1. 1.

   a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener)

   Broaderoil

Questions about mineral oil

What does mineral oil mean?

mineral oil means "a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener)".

Is mineral oil a common word?

mineral 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.