sesame oil

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   oil obtained from sesame seeds

   Broadervegetable oil

Questions about sesame oil

What does sesame oil mean?

sesame oil means "oil obtained from sesame seeds".

Is sesame oil a common word?

sesame 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.