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palm oil
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palm \Palm\, n. [AS. palm, L. palma; -- so named fr. the leaf resembling a hand. See 1st Palm , and cf. Pam .] (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palm[ae] or Palmace[ae] ; a palm tree. Note: Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic size. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil . ▪ Nearly all exported products were primary commodities such as palm oil and cocoa, or copper and gold. ▪ The forests have been extensively ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An edible plant oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palm (''Elaeis guineensis'').
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Palm oil (also known as dendê oil , from Portuguese) is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms , primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis , and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm
Usage examples of palm oil.
Ropes, pivoting on belts of leather greased with palm oil, were slung around several of the blue pine trees which had colonized the island, and crew and passengers labored at the ship's windlass to haul her out of the shallows until the hole bitten through her hull was visible.
With the money he had bought four hens through the Chinese trader who had the camp concession from the Japanese, and along with the hens, two cans of sardines, two cans of condensed milk and a pint of orange-colored palm oil.
I have been appointed the Worshipful Company's Agent, with instructions to examine the market in palm oil, gum-copal, copper and ivory, and they have come up with the third and last 500 guineas, and a presentation Sharps rifle.
There had been candles and lamps that burned palm oil or something like that.
But if he could feel little with his busted-up body -- taste nothing of the glop that was ladled into his mouth, barely sense the warm palm oil that was rubbed into his limbs-there was one thing he could still feel, one anguished pinpoint that pushed into him whenever he made out Emma's face.
It has a cordage of bark strips resembling a closely woven burlap, but it is much softer, a result in part perhaps due to the fact that the dye in which it is prepared is mixed with palm oil.