salad oil

1. 1.

   any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings

   Broadervegetable oil

Questions about salad oil

What does salad oil mean?

salad oil means "any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings".

Is salad oil a common word?

salad 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.