rapeseed oil

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

   Synonymsrape oilcolza oil

   Broaderoil

Questions about rapeseed oil

What does rapeseed oil mean?

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

What is another word for rapeseed oil?

Close synonyms include rape 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 rapeseed oil a common word?

rapeseed 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.