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olive oil

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. olive oil (noun)
  2. olive-oil castile soap (noun)
  3. sulfur oil (noun)

olive oil

noun

Definition of OLIVE OIL

: a pale yellow to yellowish-green nondrying oil obtained from olives and used chiefly as a salad oil and in cooking
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Examples of OLIVE OIL

  1. a teaspoon of olive oil

First Known Use of OLIVE OIL

circa 1741

Rhymes with OLIVE OIL

baby oil, castor oil, desert soil, drying oil, holy oil, linseed oil, mineral oil, peanut oil, prairie soil, rapeseed oil, safflower oil, salad oil, soybean oil, supercoil, tick trefoil

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