ANIMAL OIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal oil mean? 

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

1. any oil obtained from animal substances

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL OIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any oil obtained from animal substances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

animal material (material derived from animals)

oil (a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water)

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

neat's-foot oil (a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather)

wool oil (any oil used to oil wool before spinning)

train oil; whale oil (a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant)

tallow oil (an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant)

tallow (obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants)

sperm oil (an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale)

shark-liver oil; shark oil (a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A)

seal oil (a pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant)

sardine oil (oil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap)

salmon oil (a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather)

dolphin oil (an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant)

porpoise oil (a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant)

oleo oil (obtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication)

drying oil (an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base)

menhaden oil (a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather)

lard oil (oil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant)

halibut-liver oil (a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A)

goose grease (grease derived from geese)

acylglycerol; glyceride (an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils)

fish-liver oil; fish oil (a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish)

lanolin; wool fat; wool grease (a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics)

cod-liver oil; cod liver oil (an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D)

bone oil (the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture)

bone oil; Dippel's oil (dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol)

blubber (an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil)