vegetable oil

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === vegetable oil (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable oils) Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels. Hypernyms: oil; lipid; foodstuff Hyponyms: olive oil, palm oil; others at seed oil Coordinate terms: (oil types) mineral oil; petroleum; motor oil; fuel oil ==== Usage notes ==== In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil. ==== Translations ==== === References === “vegetable oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.