shark-liver oil

1. 1.

   a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A

   Synonymsshark oil

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about shark-liver oil

What does shark-liver oil mean?

shark-liver oil means "a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A".

What is another word for shark-liver oil?

Close synonyms include shark 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 shark-liver oil a common word?

shark-liver 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.