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Oleomargarine

Oleomargarine Meaning & Definition
Oleomargarine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Oleomargarine?

[n] a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

Synonyms | Synonyms for Oleomargarine: margarin | margarine | marge | oleo

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See Also | paste | spread | trans fatty acid | vegetable oil

Oleomargarine In Webster's Dictionary

\O`le*o*mar"ga*rine\, n. [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.] [Written also {oleomargarin}.] 1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. 2. An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. Note: Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake.

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