palm oil

noun

a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
oil obtained from various species of palm.

palm oil

a yellow butter-like oil obtained from the fruit of the oil palm, used as an edible fat and in soap

First recorded in 1620–30

These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.

Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory.

Palm oil is so cheap because the trees are extremely productive.

The advent of large-scale palm oil production made it more and more attractive to manufacturers.

The Girl Scouts uses palm oil to make its cookies, as do manufacturers of ice cream, crackers, packaged breads, and margarine.

The finances of the country are being taxed to the utmost to find the extra "palm-oil" which these mercenaries demand.

There was one sort of beads used for the purchase of palm oil, a second for ivory, a third for gold, and a fourth for slaves.

Before they had been in the country another week they were vociferously demanding palm-oil chop from John every day.

To one side was a little dish full o' palm oil, with a lighted wick floatin' in it.

A little o' the palm oil helped, but wi' them things around me I thought sure I was crazy.

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