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vegetable_oil

vegetable oil

English

Noun

vegetable oil ‎(plural vegetable oils)

olive oil

Any oil produced from plants, such as olive oil and corn oil.

Usage notes

In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil.

Translations

oil produced from plants

Armenian: ձեթ (hy) ‎(jetʿ), բուսական յուղ ‎(busakan yuł)
Catalan: oli vegetal m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 植物油 ‎(zik⁶ mat⁶ jau⁴), 菜油 ‎(coi³ jau⁴)

Mandarin: 植物油 (zh) ‎(zhíwùyóu), 素油 (zh) ‎(sùyóu), 菜油 (zh) ‎(càiyóu)
Dutch: plantenolie f, plantaardige olie f
Faroese: plantuolja f
Finnish: kasvisöljy
French: huile végétale f
Galician: aceite vexetal (gl) m
German: Pflanzenöl (de) n

Hebrew: שמן צמחי m ‎(shémen tsimkhí), שמן (he) ‎(shémen)
Irish: ola phlandúil f
Italian: olio vegetale m
Japanese: 植物油 ‎(しょくぶつゆ, shokubutsuyu)
Korean: 식물유 (ko) ‎(singmuryu) (植物油 (ko))
Portuguese: óleo vegetal m
Romanian: ulei vegetal n, untdelemn (ro) n
Russian: расти́тельное ма́сло (ru) n ‎(rastítelʹnoje máslo)
Spanish: aceite vegetal m
Ukrainian: олі́я (uk) f ‎(olíja), росли́нна олі́я f ‎(roslýnna olíja)