vegetable oil

English

Noun

vegetable oil (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable oils)

olive oil

1. Any oil produced from plants, such as olive oil and corn oil, mostly used for cooking.

Usage notes

In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil.

Translations

oil produced from plants

• Armenian: ձեթ (hy) (jetʻ), բուսական յուղ (busakan yuġ)
• Catalan: oli vegetal m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 植物油 (zik⁶ mat⁶ jau⁴), 菜油 (coi³ jau⁴)

  Mandarin: 植物油 (zh) (zhíwùyóu), 素油 (zh) (sùyóu), 菜油 (zh) (càiyóu)

• Danish: vegetabilsk olie c, planteolie c
• Dutch: plantenolie f, plantaardige olie (nl) f
• Faroese: plantuolja f
• Finnish: kasvisöljy
• French: huile végétale f
• Galician: aceite vexetal (gl) m
• Georgian: მცენარეული ზეთი (mcenareuli zeti)
• German: Pflanzenöl (de) n
• Greek: σπορέλαιο (el) n (sporélaio)
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• Hebrew: שמן צמחי m (shémen tsimkhí), שמן (he) (shémen)
• Icelandic: jurtaolía f
• Irish: ola phlandúil f
• Italian: olio vegetale m
• Japanese: 植物油 (しょくぶつゆ, shokubutsuyu)
• Korean: 식물유 (ko) (singmuryu) (植物油 (ko))
• Norwegian: vegetabilsk olje m or f

  Bokmål: planteolje m or f

  Nynorsk: planteolje m or f

• Portuguese: óleo vegetal m
• Romanian: ulei vegetal n, untdelemn (ro) n
• Russian: расти́тельное ма́сло (ru) n (rastítelʹnoje máslo)
• Spanish: aceite vegetal m
• Swedish: vegetabilisk olja (sv) c
• Thai: น้ำมันพืช (th) (nám-man-pʉ̂ʉt)
• Ukrainian: олі́я (uk) f (olíja), росли́нна олі́я f (roslýnna olíja)

References

• “vegetable oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.