rape oil

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   edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant

   Synonymsrapeseed oilcolza oil

   Broaderoil

Questions about rape oil

What does rape oil mean?

rape oil means "edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant".

What is another word for rape oil?

Close synonyms include rapeseed oil, colza 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 rape oil a common word?

rape 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.