oil cake
- noun
- Specialized
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torta de aceite
- Farmers often use oil cake as a protein-rich supplement for their livestock.
Examples
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The factory specializes in producing oil cake from sunflower seeds to supply local farms.
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The farmer feeds his cows oil cake.
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After the oil was extracted from the soybeans, the remaining oil cake was sold as cattle feed.
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Many livestock producers use oil cakes for nutrition.
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After the oil was extracted from the soybeans, the remaining oil cake was sold as cattle feed.
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Farmers often use oil cake as a protein-rich supplement for their livestock.
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The factory specializes in producing oil cake from sunflower seeds to supply local farms.
Synonyms
The ground leftover from seeds after oil is removed, used mainly as animal feed or plant food
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'oil' + 'cake' transparently signal a compact mass related to oil, so a B1 learner would likely infer it is some solid product associated with oil. However, the specific technical sense — the compressed residue left after oil extraction used as livestock feed — is specialised and not fully predictable from the parts, so prior exposure is needed for the precise meaning.
Etymology
The noun oil cake comes from a simple picture: when people squeeze seeds to get oil, the crushed seed left behind forms a firm block like a cake. Farmers used that block as animal 'feed', so 'oil cake' means the compressed leftovers after the oil is taken out that are used as livestock 'feed'.
