PALM OIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palm oil mean? 

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

1. oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALM OIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

oil; vegetable oil (any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants)

Holonyms ("palm oil" is a substance of...):

palm kernel; palm nut (seed of any oil palm)

 Context examples 

Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil in the world with total sales in 2018 topping US$30 billion dollars, contributes greatly to the GDP of several tropical countries.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

A hydrogenated derivative of palm oil.

(Hydrogenated Palm Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Palm oil is commonly used as a commercial cooking oil due to its stability at high temperatures.

(Palm Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Myristic acid is found naturally in palm oil, coconut oil and butter fat.

(Myristic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Palmitic acid is found naturally in palm oil and palm kernel oil, as well as in butter, cheese, milk and meat.

(Palmitic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers used vinasse, a byproduct of sugarcane ethanol and sugar production, and a residue known as POME (palm oil mill effluent), which results from palm processing and is used in the fertirrigation of plantations.

(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)

Hydrogenated palm oil has industrial applications.

(Hydrogenated Palm Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The large-scale, multidisciplinary study on palm oil plantations, in the Jambi province in Indonesia, compared the yield associated with decreased versus conventional use of fertilisers, and with mechanical versus herbicide-based weed control.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

According to EMBRAPA experts, using these low-cost effluents as a medium to grow microalgae could add value to the sugarcane and palm oil production chain by enabling the production of larger amounts of biomass and oil for energy and bioproducts.

(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)

Palm oil production can be made less environmentally destructive by reducing the use of fertilisers and avoid using herbicides.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)