vegetable tallow

1. 1.

   a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow

   Broaderplant material

Questions about vegetable tallow

What does vegetable tallow mean?

vegetable tallow means "a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow".

Is vegetable tallow a common word?

vegetable tallow 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.