noun
edible oil pressed from cottonseeds
• Hypernyms: ↑vegetable oil, ↑oil
• Substance Holonyms: ↑cottonseed
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noun : a semidrying fatty oil that is obtained from cottonseed by expression or solvent extraction, is pale yellow after refining, contains principally glycerides of linoleic, oleic, and palmitic acids, and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and after hydrogenation in shortenings and margarine
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a brown-yellow, viscid oil with a nutlike odor, obtained from the seed of the cotton plant: used in the manufacture of soaps, hydrogenated fats, lubricants, and cosmetics, as a cooking and salad oil, and in medicine chiefly as a laxative.
[1825-35, Amer.]
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cottonseed oil,
an oil pressed from cottonseed, used especially for cooking and for making soap: »
Cottonseed oil goes to refineries for purification and then to finished products plants, mainly for the production of shortenings, margarine and salad oil (Wall Street Journal).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.