cottonseed oil

noun

: a pale yellow semidrying fatty oil that is obtained from the cottonseed and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and after hydrogenation in shortenings and margarine

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There is also Mite-x, a product made from cottonseed oil, clove oil, and garlic extract. — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025 Some oils, like hazelnut, sunflower, almond, and cottonseed oil, have more vitamin E in each gram than sunflower seeds. — Merve Ceylan, Health, 15 Oct. 2025 The slimline bullet allows for less wax and higher pigment load, while cottonseed oil extract gives butter-like spreadability. — Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025 Bemberg is produced in Japan from cotton linters, a pre-consumer byproduct of cottonseed oil, using a traceable closed-loop process. — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cottonseed oil

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First Known Use

1833, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of cottonseed oil was in 1833

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cottonseed oil

noun
: a pale yellow oil that is obtained from cottonseed and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and in shortenings and margarine

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cottonseed oil

noun
cot·​ton·​seed oil ˈkät-ᵊn-ˌsēd- How to pronounce cottonseed oil (audio)
: a fatty oil that is obtained from cottonseed, 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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