vegetable oil

1. 1.

   any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

   Synonymsoil

   Broaderedible fat

   Narrowercooking oilsweet oilcanola oilcoconut oilcorn oilcottonseed oilolive oilpalm oilpeanut oilsalad oil

Questions about vegetable oil

What does vegetable oil mean?

vegetable oil means "any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants".

What is another word for vegetable oil?

Close synonyms include 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 vegetable oil a common word?

vegetable 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.