tung oil

1. 1.

   a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree

   SynonymsChinese wood oil

   Broaderoil

Questions about tung oil

What does tung oil mean?

tung oil means "a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree".

What is another word for tung oil?

Close synonyms include Chinese wood 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 tung oil a common word?

tung 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.