palm oil
noun
1.
a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
2.
oil obtained from various species of palm.
Origin
1620-30
Examples from the web for
palm oil
Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of
palm oil
plantations.
Most of the forest losses are due to paper milling and
palm oil
plantations.
Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of
palm oil
plantations.
Start with the cornmeal, the samba instructs, and the
palm oil
.
They are reluctant to import
palm oil
because of the adverse ecological impact of the palm plantations.
The animals are rapidly losing habitat to
palm oil
plantations.
Logging for timber and clear-cutting forests for
palm oil
plantations are destroying habitat.
Vast
palm oil
plantations are swallowing up thousands of acres of bird of paradise habitat, as is large-scale industrial logging.
Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of
palm oil
plantations.
Vast tracts of tropical rainforest have been replaced by
palm oil
plantations for food and biofuels, satellite imagery reveals.
British Dictionary definitions for
palm oil
palm oil
noun
1.
a yellow butter-like oil obtained from the fruit of the oil palm, used as an edible fat and in soap
Slang definitions & phrases for
palm oil
palm oil
noun phrase
Money used for bribery and graft
[1627+; because it is used to grease one's palm]