WordNet
n. a oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap; "groundnut oil" is British usage [syn: groundnut oil]
Wikipedia
Peanut oil, also known as groundnut oil or arachis oil, is a mild-tasting vegetable oil derived from peanuts. The oil is available with a strong peanut flavor and aroma, analogous to sesame oil.
It is often used in Chinese, South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine, both for general cooking, and in the case of roasted oil, for added flavor. Peanut oil has a high smoke point relative to many other cooking oils, so is commonly used for frying foods. Its major component fatty acids are oleic acid (46.8% as olein), linoleic acid (33.4% as linolein), and palmitic acid (10.0% as palmitin). The oil also contains some stearic acid, arachidic acid, behenic acid, lignoceric acid and other fatty acids.
Antioxidants such as vitamin E are sometimes added to improve the shelf life of the oil.
Usage examples of "peanut oil".
A fuel station by the docks, stacked logs for steamers and peanut oil tanks for diesels.
The patient was repeatedly assured that he could expect to achieve a rapid return of natural function in his arm within a few days, and steady, gradual improvement after that.
He knew little more of her than her preference for peanut oil for cooking and blue bed linen.
A few brief flailing strokes of its wings distributed enough smoking-hot peanut oil on the near-naked skins or the kitchen slaves to send half a dozen screaming and leaping into the center of the floor.
I feel as if I'm leaking gin and lager and peanut oil from my T-zone, and there's something new, a hard pad of matter under the skin, about the size of a peanut, that moves around when I touch it.
When the president and First Lady came in, he put peanut oil in her foie gras in the kitchen.
Randolph took one look at the sea slugs, lying grey and juicy in their sauce of peanut oil, and decided to stay with the chicken.
Her breath was laden not only with the smell of bad teeth but, as I would later realize, with finely-divided droplets of peanut oil.
Collet nodded, recalling a police investigation into a restaurant that had failed to notate on its menu that the chili recipe contained peanut oil.
We need eggs, butter, peanut oil, vermouth, beef bouillon, and barbecue sauce.
Eggs, butter, peanut oil, vermouth, beef bouillon, barbecue sauce.