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corn oil


corn oil

noun

Definition of CORN OIL

: a yellow fatty oil obtained from the germ of corn kernels and used chiefly as salad oil, in soft soap, and in margarine
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First Known Use of CORN OIL

1879

Rhymes with CORN OIL

coal oil, fish oil, fixed oil, free-soil, fuel oil, gas oil, night soil, palm oil, red soil, rose oil, shale oil, snake oil, sperm oil, subsoil, tung oil, white oil

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