viscid oil

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• cottonseed oil — noun edible oil pressed from cottonseeds • Hypernyms: ↑vegetable oil, ↑oil • Substance Holonyms: ↑cottonseed * * * noun : a semidrying fatty oil that is obtained from cottonseed by expression or solvent extraction, is pale yellow after refining,… …   Useful english dictionary

• cottonseed oil — 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. [1825… …   Universalium

• cottonseed oil — /ˌkɒtnsid ˈɔɪl/ (say .kotnseed oyl) noun a brown yellow viscid oil, with a nut like smell, obtained from the seed of the cotton plant, used in pharmacology and as an oil for salad dressing …  

• castor oil — /kastər ˈɔɪl / (say kahstuhr oyl) noun a viscid oil obtained from castor seeds, used as a cathartic, lubricant, etc …  

• castor oil — a colorless to pale yellow, viscid liquid, usually obtained from the castor bean by a pressing process: used as a lubricant, in the manufacture of certain soaps and creams, and in medicine chiefly as a cathartic. Also called ricinus oil. [1740… …   Universalium

• sandalwood oil — SYN: santal oil. * * * san·dal·wood oil san dəl .wu̇d n a pale yellow somewhat viscous aromatic liquid essential oil obtained from a sandalwood (Santalum album) and used chiefly in perfumes and soaps and esp. formerly in medicine called also… …   Medical dictionary

• croton oil — A fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Croton tiglium (family Euphorbiaceae), an East Indian shrub; used as an irritant purgative, and externally as a counterirritant and vesicant. * * * croton oil krōt ən n a viscid acrid fixed oil from an… …   Medical dictionary

• Croton oil — Croton Cro ton (kr? t?n), n. [Gr. ????, prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.] (Bot.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. [1913 Webster] {Croton oil} (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• croton oil — noun viscid acrid brownish yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action • Hypernyms: ↑oil • Substance Holonyms: ↑croton, ↑Croton tiglium …   Useful english dictionary

• Coal oil — Coal Coal (k[=o]l), n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol, cholo, G. kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr. jval to burn. Cf. {Kiln}, {Collier}.] 1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• croton oil — noun Date: 1827 a viscid acrid fixed oil obtained from seeds of an Asian croton (Croton tiglium) formerly used as a powerful purgative but now used especially in pharmacological experiments as an irritant …   New Collegiate Dictionary