porpoise oil

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   a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about porpoise oil

What does porpoise oil mean?

porpoise oil means "a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant".

Is porpoise oil a common word?

porpoise 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.