oil meal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oil meal
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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China retaliated in March by imposing tariffs on several Canadian agricultural products, including a 76% levy on Canadian canola seed imports and a 100% levy on canola oil, meal and peas.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
By-products are linseed oil cake, oil meal, poultry feed, cattle feed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A ton of the seed contains as much protein as a ton of old-process oil meal, and three fourths as much as a ton of cottonseed meal.
From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva
To fatten cattle there ought to be mixed with the slop, a little oil meal, or chopped flaxseed, or chopped corn.
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