Oleaginous Definition

ōlē-ăjə-nəs
adjective
Of or relating to oil.
American Heritage
Oily; greasy; unctuous.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Oleaginous

  • From Middle English oliaginose and from French oléagineux (from Old French) both from Latin oleāginus of the olive tree from olea olive tree alteration (influenced by oleum olive oil) of olīva olive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French oléagineux, from Latin oleāginus, from olea (“the olive fruit and tree").

    From Wiktionary

Oleaginous Sentence Examples

  • Large numbers of oleaginous plants are cultivated, such as sunflower.

  • The crudest method of rendering oils from seeds, still practised in Central Africa, in Indo-China and on some of the South Sea Islands, consists in heaping up oleaginous fruits and allowing them to melt by the heat of the sun, when the exuding oil runs off and is collected.

  • In the case of oleaginous seeds of low value (cotton-seed, linseed) it is of importance to express in one operation the largest possible quantity of oil.

  • Their chief physical distinction from the fatty oils is that they are as a rule not oleaginous to the touch and leave no permanent grease spot.

  • Many species are rich in gums and resins; the calambac, mastic, copal, cedar, &c. Many others are oleaginous, among them, peanuts, sun-flowers, the bene seed (sesame), corozo, almond and palmachristi.

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