almond oil
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noun Chemistry.
Also called sweet almond oil, expressed almond oil. a colorless to pale yellow fatty oil expressed from the seeds of the sweet almond, used in preparing perfumes and confections.
Also called bitter almond oil. a colorless to yellow, poisonous oil obtained by steam distillation from the almond meal of bitter almond seeds: used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, medicines, and perfumes.
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Origin of almond oil
First recorded in 1835–45
Words nearby almond oil
almond bark, almond cake, almond-eyed, almond meal, almond milk, almond oil, almond-shaped, almoner, almonry, Almoravid, Almoravide
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