单词 | cottonseed oil |
释义 | cottonseed oil in British Englishnoun a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc cottonseed oil in American Englishnoun a brown-yellow, viscid oil with a nutlike odor, obtained from the seed of the cotton plant: used in the manufacture of soaps, hydrogenated fats, lubricants, and cosmetics, as a cooking and salad oil, and in medicine chiefly as a laxative Word origin [1825–35, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cross section, electrolyte, panda, relativity, spiritualismExamples of 'cottonseed oil' in a sentence |
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