copra oil
- noun
- /ˈkɑːprə ɔɪl/
:
aceite de copra
- Copra oil is a popular choice for frying due to its high smoke point.
Examples
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The chef used copra oil to prepare a delicious coconut curry.
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The cultivation of the palms, the processing of the nuts, the production and marketing of copra oil, today make up the principal activities of the Nzema, and together with fishing in the lagoons of the Ivory Coast, provide their only important source of income.
Academic text (1992) -
Many bakeries in tropical regions prefer using copra oil in their recipes.
Synonyms
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1.5
An edible oil from inside coconuts used for cooking and skin care
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'oil extracted from copra' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'copra' (dried coconut kernel) with 'oil'—a standard noun+noun pattern indicating a product derived from a source. Although 'copra' is somewhat domain-specific, if a B1 learner knows both constituents they can readily infer the compound's meaning; this formation is cross-linguistically common and predictable.
Etymology
The noun copra oil comes from copra, the 'dried white meat' inside a coconut, and oil, the 'fat used for cooking or skin care'. People press the dried coconut meat to squeeze out the fat, so copra oil simply means the edible oil made from dried coconut and used for food and cosmetics.