ANIMAL FAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal fat mean? 

• ANIMAL FAT (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL FAT has 1 sense:

1. any fat obtained from animals

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL FAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL FAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fat obtained from animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids

Hypernyms ("animal fat" is a kind of...):

animal material (material derived from animals)

fat (a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal fat"):

bone fat (fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases)

butterfat (the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made)

 Context examples 

Acetone occurs naturally in plants, trees, forest fires, vehicle exhaust and as a breakdown product of animal fat metabolism.

(Acetone, NCI Thesaurus)

Produced from renewable sources (among which soybean oil, animal fat, and cottonseed oil), this biofuel emits less pollutants than diesel does.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)