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PALM OIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

palm kernel; palm nut (seed of any oil palm)

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 Context examples: 

Palm oil is an important commodity, but it raises concerns over the destruction of tropical rainforests that are replaced by its monocultures, says Kevin Felix Arno Darras, study author and postdoctoral researcher at Germany's University of Göttingen.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)