cottonseed oil

American  

noun

1. 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.

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cottonseed oil British  

noun

1. a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc

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Etymology

Origin of cottonseed oil

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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cottonseed oil

The products, mostly partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil, provided taste and texture and extended the shelf life of fried and baked foods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2015

"Fired from the Wall Street Journal in 1954 for lacking respect for price of crude cottonseed oil."

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2011

Planters thought that they could easily sell twice as much cottonseed oil if only Congress would repeal the high tax, lobbied through by dairy farmers, on the sale of colored margarine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put his oil profits into cottonseed oil, in 1946 acquired New Orleans' Wesson Oil for $76 mil lion.

From Time Magazine Archive

For polishing varnish, a simple method is to rub with a rotary motion, using a mixture of 1⁄2 sweet oil or cottonseed oil, and 1⁄2 alcohol.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William