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Webster 1913 Edition
Oleomargarine
Oˊle-o-mar′ga-rine
,Noun.
[L.
oleum
oil + E. margarine
, margarin
.] [Written also
oleomargarin
.] 1.
A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.
[archaic]
☞ Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake.