animal oil
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1. any oil obtained from animal substances (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | animal material, |
| definition | : | material derived from animals (noun.substance) |
| hypernym | : | oil, |
| definition | : | a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | drying oil, |
| definition | : | an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | blubber, |
| definition | : | an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | bone oil, dippel's oil, |
| definition | : | dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | bone oil, |
| definition | : | the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | cod liver oil, cod-liver oil, |
| definition | : | an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | lanolin, wool fat, wool grease, |
| definition | : | a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | fish oil, fish-liver oil, |
| definition | : | a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | acylglycerol, glyceride, |
| definition | : | an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | goose grease, |
| definition | : | grease derived from geese (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | halibut-liver oil, |
| definition | : | a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | lard oil, |
| definition | : | oil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | menhaden oil, |
| definition | : | a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | neat's-foot oil, |
| definition | : | a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | oleo oil, |
| definition | : | obtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | porpoise oil, |
| definition | : | a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | dolphin oil, |
| definition | : | an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | salmon oil, |
| definition | : | a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | sardine oil, |
| definition | : | oil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | seal oil, |
| definition | : | a pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | shark oil, shark-liver oil, |
| definition | : | a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | sperm oil, |
| definition | : | an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | tallow, |
| definition | : | obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | tallow oil, |
| definition | : | an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | train oil, whale oil, |
| definition | : | a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | wool oil, |
| definition | : | any oil used to oil wool before spinning (noun.substance) |
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