salmon oil

1. 1.

   a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about salmon oil

What does salmon oil mean?

salmon oil means "a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather".

Is salmon oil a common word?

salmon 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.