palm oil

1. 1.

   oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm

   Broadervegetable oil

Questions about palm oil

What does palm oil mean?

palm oil means "oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm".

Is palm oil a common word?

palm oil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.