madia oil
- noun
- Specialized
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aceite de madia
- Some chefs recommend madia oil as a flavorful substitute for olive oil in salad dressings.
Examples
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The delicate taste of madia oil makes it suitable for light cooking or drizzling over vegetables.
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In certain regions, madia oil was once commonly used when olive oil was too expensive or unavailable.
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I use madia oil for cooking.
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Have you tried madia oil in your salad dressing?
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Some chefs recommend madia oil as a flavorful substitute for olive oil in salad dressings.
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In certain regions, madia oil was once commonly used when olive oil was too expensive or unavailable.
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The delicate taste of madia oil makes it suitable for light cooking or drizzling over vegetables.
Synonyms
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A liquid fat from plants used for cooking and salad dressings
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A liquid made by pressing olives used for cooking and salads
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A pale yellow oil made from almonds used for cooking and skin care
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Oil made from sunflower seeds used for cooking and food
An oil for cooking and skin care pressed from the tree's seeds
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — an oil produced from the Madia plant — is compositionally derivable from 'Madia' (the plant genus) + 'oil' in the same way as 'olive oil' or 'sunflower oil'. The noun+product pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Madia oil is named for the madia plant: people used to press the plant's seeds to make a cooking oil. In places where olives were scarce, cooks used madia oil as a tasty 'substitute' for olive oil, so the name now means the edible oil made from madia seeds.