COTTONSEED OIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cottonseed oil mean? 

• COTTONSEED OIL (noun)
  The noun COTTONSEED OIL has 1 sense:

1. edible oil pressed from cottonseeds

  Familiarity information: COTTONSEED OIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTONSEED OIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible oil pressed from cottonseeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cottonseed oil" is a kind of...):

oil; vegetable oil (any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants)

Holonyms ("cottonseed oil" is a substance of...):

cottonseed (seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil)

 Context examples 

Levant cottonseed oil is a source of gossypol and has antispermacidal activity.

(Levant Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The levo-enantiomer of an orally bioavailable polyphenolic aldehyde, derived primarily from unrefined cottonseed oil, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(L-Gossypol, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived primarily from unrefined cottonseed oil, gossypol induces cell cycle arrest at the G0/G1 phase, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and inducing apoptosis.

(Gossypol, NCI Thesaurus)

Produced from renewable sources (among which soybean oil, animal fat, and cottonseed oil), this biofuel emits less pollutants than diesel does.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

Cottonseed oil is used both as a cooking oil and a food ingredient.

(Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)