salad oil

noun

any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings

• Hypernyms: ↑vegetable oil, ↑oil

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noun

1. : an oil for salad dressing

2. : an edible vegetable oil (as corn or sesame oil) other than olive oil

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an oil used in salad dressing, esp. olive oil or a vegetable oil, as from sesame, corn, or safflower.

[1550-60]

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salad dressing or salad oil noun

Sauce, olive oil, etc used in dressing salads

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Main Entry: ↑salad

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salad oil,

1. olive oil, usually of superior quality, used in dressing salads and for other culinary purposes.

2. any oil used in salad dressing.