sunflower-seed oil
- noun
- /ˈsʌnˌflaʊər siːd ɔɪl/
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aceite de semillas de girasol
- One group were fed a sunflower seed oil and one were fed sunflower seed oil with cholesterol in it.
One group were fed a sunflower seed oil and one were fed sunflower seed oil with cholesterol in it.
- One group were fed a sunflower seed oil and one were fed sunflower seed oil with cholesterol in it.
- Also, this has sunflower seed oil which is rich in vitamin E and a good things for the skin.
Examples
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Some of the oils it contains are almond apricot, sunflower seed oil, macadamia nut oil.
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Also, this has sunflower seed oil which is rich in vitamin E and a good things for the skin.
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It has mango seed butter in sunflower seed oil, AKI Berry oil, vitamin E oil, all of the good stuff that really repairs the lips.
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I prefer to use sunflower-seed oil for cooking because it has a mild flavor.
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She drizzled sunflower-seed oil on her salad for added taste and nutrition.
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Many chefs recommend sunflower-seed oil as a healthy alternative to butter in recipes.
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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3.4
A light cooking oil made from rapeseed plants that is low in saturated fat
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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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A light cooking oil that comes from rapeseed and has a mild taste
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An oil from sesame seeds that people use to add flavor to food
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An oil from peanuts used for cooking and making soap
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A pale yellow vegetable oil made from corn kernels used for cooking
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A pale yellow oil made from almonds used for cooking and skin care
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A liquid taken from walnuts used for cooking and salad dressing
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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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An oil from flax seeds used as food and in paints or varnishes
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A light vegetable oil used for salad dressing and cooking
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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
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A mild vegetable oil like olive oil that you use for cooking and skin care
A pale yellow cooking oil made from peanuts
A light yellow oil from soybeans that people use for cooking
A light yellow oil from rapeseed used for cooking and to help machines run
An edible oil that comes from cotton seeds and is used for cooking
A pale yellow oil from almonds that people use for cooking and for skin or hair
Surface Forms
Morphology
sunflower-seed + oil
The meaning 'a pale yellow oil extracted from sunflower seeds' is directly compositional from 'sunflower seed' + 'oil' — the oil made from the seeds of the sunflower — so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the referent. This type of noun-compound for cooking oils is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English compounding patterns, making it transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun sunflower-seed oil comes from a simple idea: it is oil made by pressing the seed of the sunflower plant. Because it is oil from sunflower seeds, the name tells you what it is and why people use it in 'cooking' and 'salads'.