peanut oil
noun
: a colorless to yellow fatty nondrying oil that is obtained from peanuts and is used chiefly as a salad oil, in margarine, in soap, and as a vehicle in pharmaceutical preparations and cosmetics
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This body lotion is packed with vitamin A and uses beeswax and peanut oil.
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Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
Beyond the normal ads for things like taxes, peanuts, cars, and tax-exempt biodiesel cars that run on peanut oil, there were trailers galore.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024
Southern cooks prefer peanut oil, but canola or vegetable oil will do.
—Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 9 May 2024
Seed oils include canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran and peanut oils.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
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Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
Beyond the normal ads for things like taxes, peanuts, cars, and tax-exempt biodiesel cars that run on peanut oil, there were trailers galore.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024
Southern cooks prefer peanut oil, but canola or vegetable oil will do.
—Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 9 May 2024
Seed oils include canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran and peanut oils.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
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peanut oil
noun
pea·nut oil
ˈpē-nət- 
: a colorless to yellow nondrying fatty oil that is obtained from peanuts and is used chiefly as a salad oil, in margarine, in soap, and as a vehicle in pharmaceutical preparations and cosmetics
called also arachis oil
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