palm oil
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- noun
- /pɑlm ɔɪl/
:
aceite de palma
- Many consumers are looking for products that do not contain palm oil due to environmental concerns.
- palm oil plantations
- palm oil factories
Solid fats, like coconut oil, palm oil, Lard.
- Solid fats, like coconut oil, palm oil, Lard.
- I don't want a lot of palm oil, mineral oil.
- But Unilever is now trying to go directly to palm oil straight, no commodity pricing.
- So they're they're talking bad about coconut oil and palm oil there.
- It's happening in and either to plant fuel like bio palm oil in Southeast Asia or to plant food instead.
Examples
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Export-oriented production of oil, gas, timber, and palm oil has resulted in substantial rates of economic growth in Malaysian Borneo in recent decades.
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Isn't palm oil in pretty much everything?
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So you wish to sell palm oil.
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African palm oil is on the low end and olive oil is on the high end.
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This field alone produces thousands of barrels of palm oil.
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Palm oil is a key ingredient in Nutella.
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However, it seems that soy and palm oil are causing deforestation.
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Palm oil production has boomed over the last decade making these men billionaires.
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We are seeing an acceleration of rainforest destruction due to planting palm oil crops to feed the biofuel industry.
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At New Britain Palm Oil, he was responsible for the processing, production, and quality control of palm oil for exporting and maintenance of the oil milling machinery.
Academic text (2011)
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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An oil made from plants that you use for cooking
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1.5
An edible oil from inside coconuts used for cooking and skin care
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Oil from plants or seeds used to cook food
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1.1
An oil from sesame seeds that people use to add flavor to food
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1.8
An oil from peanuts used for cooking and making soap
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Oil made from sunflower seeds used for cooking and food
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A yellowish liquid from mustard seeds that people use for cooking and massage
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A light yellow oil from the rapeseed plant used for cooking and as fuel or to oil machines
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A light pale oil from safflower seeds people use for cooking and sometimes in paints or medicine
A light yellow oil from soybeans that people use for cooking
How Healthy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'oil obtained from the oil palm tree' is directly and transparently derived from the noun compound palm + oil: an oil produced from a palm. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically regular (e.g., Spanish 'aceite de palma') and a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning, with context resolving the possible 'palm of the hand' ambiguity.
Etymology
The compound noun palm oil is very literal: it is the oil pressed from the fruit of the palm tree. Think of bright orange fruits full of oily flesh that are pressed to make oil, so the name simply means the oil made from palm trees.