oil meal
- noun
- Specialized
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harina de aceite
- After the extraction process, the oil meal is used to improve soil fertility in agricultural fields.
Examples
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The feed manufacturer includes oil meal in its formulations to enhance the nutritional value for poultry.
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The oil pump industry produces waste such as empty fruit bunch and palm oil meal effluent.
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Farmers often use oil meal as a high-protein animal feed ingredient to supplement livestock diets.
Synonyms
A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
A solid left after squeezing neem seeds for oil that is used as a natural fertilizer and to control pests
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Morphology
The compound clearly links 'oil' with 'meal', so a learner can infer it is a ground product related to oil; this gives a partial clue to its domain. However, the specific technical sense — the solid residue left after extracting oil from seeds used as animal feed or fertilizer — is agro-industrial and not directly predictable from everyday senses of 'oil' and 'meal', so prior exposure or domain knowledge is required.
Etymology
The noun oil meal comes from a simple, literal idea: after seeds are pressed to get oil, the leftover crushed seeds are ground into a meal. That's why oil meal means the ground leftovers used as 'animal feed' or 'fertilizer'.