petroleum jelly

English

Petroleum jelly

Noun

petroleum jelly (plural petroleum jellies)

1. A pale yellow semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in lubricants and ointments.

Synonyms

• multi-hydrocarbon
• petrolatum
• soft paraffin
• Vaseline (in some countries)
• vaseline
• white petrolatum

Translations

pale yellow semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum

• Catalan: petrolat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (scientific) 礦脂／矿脂 (zh) (kuàngzhī), (Vaseline) 凡士林 (zh) (Fánshìlín)

• Czech: vazelína (cs) f
• Finnish: vaseliini (fi)
• Galician: vaselina (gl) f
• Greenlandic: punnerusaaq
• Irish: veasailín m
• Italian: petrolato (it) m
• Japanese: ワセリン (Waserin)
• Portuguese: vaselina (pt) f
• Russian: вазели́н (ru) m (vazelín)
• Spanish: vaselina f, petrolato m
• Swedish: vaselin (sv) n, petroleumgelé c
• Turkish: vazelin (tr)

See also

• paraffinum molle album
• paraffinum molle flavum