expeller

[ik-spel-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that expels.

2. a press used to extract oil from corn, soybeans, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of expeller¹

First recorded in 1570–80; expel + -er ¹

Example Sentences

This natural oil is squeezed from the plant using mechanical methods, such as putting the seeds or fruit through a press known as an expeller.

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Most of this expeller or “first press” oil is further refined because most consumer and food manufacturers want a neutral-flavored oil that doesn’t overpower the flavor of the other ingredients.

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Bunge has also expanded its Whole Harvest® portfolio of organic and non-GMO expeller pressed oils to include Non-GMO Project Verified canola and soybean oils.

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Looming through the haze in the background was a portrait of Mao—the great expeller of foreigners whose ideas are making a big comeback in Mr. Xi’s more ideological China.

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Initial inspections of the Jin Teng, which was carrying a cargo of palm-kernel expeller, an animal feed, didn’t find any suspicious materials, Mr. Balilo said.

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