margarine
(mɑːʳdʒəriːn , US -rɪn )
Word forms: margarines
variable noun
Margarine is a yellow substance made from vegetable oil and animal fats that is similar to butter. You spread it on bread or use it for cooking.
Put half the zest in a big bowl and add the butter or margarine.
Image of margarine
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Collocations:
margarine tub
It arrived curled up in a margarine tub.
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Chop up margarine tubs and plastic milk bottles to use as garden labels.
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It's made up of chocolate-bar wrappers, bits of plastic-coated wire, nuclear waste, detergent bottles, margarine tubs and several billion bottles.
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Plectrums cut from margarine tubs were everywhere.
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The plant should be operational in 2011 and it will be able to process plastics such as yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, egg cartons and cutlery as well as bottles.
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Translations:
Chinese: 人造黄油
Japanese: マーガリン