peanut oil

1. 1.

   an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap

   Synonymsgroundnut oil

   Broadervegetable oil

   United Kingdom

Questions about peanut oil

What does peanut oil mean?

peanut oil means "an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap".

What is another word for peanut oil?

Close synonyms include groundnut 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 peanut oil a common word?

peanut 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.