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biodiesel

biodiesel noun: fuel for diesel engines made from renewable organic raw materials, as opposed to fossil hydrocarbons.

Noun

biodiesel (countable and uncountable, plural biodiesels)

  1. Fuel for diesel engines made from renewable organic raw materials, as opposed to fossil hydrocarbons.
    • Biodiesel is an increasingly popular alternative fuel because it's made by refining oil. Thinner than vegetable oil, biodiesel can power diesel engines without further conversion.2006 November 21, Jessica Seid Dickler, “Make your own gas”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025
    • Biodiesel is a technologically feasible alternative to petrodiesel, but nowadays biodiesel costs 1.5 to 3 times more than fossil diesel in developed countries.2007, Ayhan Demirbas, Biodiesel: A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197
    Synonyms:
    bioderv

biodiesel meaning in Tamil

biodiesel in Tamil

உயிரிநெய், உயிரி எரிநெய், உயிரி டீசல்

Examples of biodiesel in a sentence

  • To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.
  • But biodiesel, renewable diesel and RNG now account for 22% of J.B.
  • Brazil has sixty-five biodiesel plants, thirty of which have the Social Seal.

All 10 example sentences with biodiesel

Synonyms of biodiesel

Forms of biodiesel

pluralbiodiesels

Origin of biodiesel

From bio- + diesel.

Questions about biodiesel

What does biodiesel mean?
Biodiesel means fuel for diesel engines made from renewable organic raw materials, as opposed to fossil hydrocarbons.
What is biodiesel in Tamil?
Biodiesel in Tamil is உயிரிநெய், உயிரி எரிநெய், உயிரி டீசல். See Biodiesel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a noun.
What is the plural of biodiesel?
The plural of biodiesel is biodiesels.

Words near biodiesel in the dictionary

  1. biodevices
  2. biodiagnoses
  3. biodiagnosis
  4. biodiagnostic
  5. biodiagnostics
  6. biodiesel
  7. biodiesels
  8. biodiffuser
  9. biodiffusers
  10. biodiffusion
  11. biodiffusive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biodiesel (page history and authors); biodiesel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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