oil cake
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Noun
[edit]oil cake (countable and uncountable, plural oil cakes)
- The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45:
- The public learned that it and similar companies in other countries were about to farm triffids on a large scale, in order to extract valuable oils and juices and to press highly nutritious oil-cake for stock feeding.
- A cake made with vegetable oil instead of butter.
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[edit]solid residue
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cake
