vegetable oil

English

Noun

vegetable oil (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable oils)

olive oil

1. Any oil produced from plants, such as olive oil and corn oil, mostly used for cooking.

Usage notes

In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil.

Hyponyms

• seed oil

Translations

oil produced from plants

• Armenian: ձեթ (hy) (jetʿ), բուսական յուղ (busakan yuġ)
• Belarusian: раслі́нны але́й m (raslínny aljéj), але́й m (aljéj)
• Bulgarian: расти́телно ма́сло n (rastítelno máslo), расти́телно масло́ n (rastítelno masló)
• Catalan: oli vegetal m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 植物油 (zik⁶ mat⁶ jau⁴), 菜油 (coi³ jau⁴)

  Mandarin: 植物油 (zh) (zhíwùyóu), 素油 (zh) (sùyóu), 菜油 (zh) (càiyóu)

• Czech: rostlinný olej m
• Danish: vegetabilsk olie c, planteolie c
• Dutch: plantenolie f, plantaardige olie (nl) f
• Faroese: plantuolja f
• Finnish: kasvisöljy
• French: huile végétale f
• Galician: aceite vexetal (gl) m
• Georgian: მცენარეული ზეთი (mcenareuli zeti)
• German: Pflanzenöl (de) n
• Greek: σπορέλαιο (el) n (sporélaio)
• Hebrew: שמן צמחי m (shémen tsimkhí), שמן (he) (shémen)
• Icelandic: jurtaolía f
• Irish: ola phlandúil f
• Italian: olio vegetale m
• Japanese: 植物油 (ja) (しょくぶつゆ, shokubutsuyu)
• Korean: 식물유(植物油) (ko) (singmuryu)
• Macedonian: растително масло n (rastitelno maslo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: planteolje m or f, vegetabilsk olje m or f

  Nynorsk: planteolje m or f

• Old East Slavic: олѣи m (olěi)
• Polish: olej roślinny m
• Portuguese: óleo vegetal m
• Romanian: ulei vegetal n, untdelemn (ro) n
• Russian: расти́тельное ма́сло (ru) n (rastítelʹnoje máslo), ма́сло (ru) n (máslo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биљно уље n

  Roman: biljno ulje n

• Slovak: rastlinný olej m
• Slovene: rastlinsko olje n
• Spanish: aceite vegetal m
• Swedish: vegetabilisk olja (sv) c
• Thai: น้ำมันพืช (th) (nám-man-pʉ̂ʉt)
• Ukrainian: росли́нна олі́я f (roslýnna olíja), олі́я (uk) f (olíja)

References

• “vegetable oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.