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oil cake

oil cake noun: the solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.

oil cake: the solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is...
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Noun

oil cake (countable and uncountable, plural oil cakes)

  1. The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.
    • The public learned that it and similar companies in other countries were about to farm triffids on a large scale, in order to extract valuable oils and juices and to press highly nutritious oil-cake for stock feeding.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45
  2. A cake made with vegetable oil instead of butter.

oil cake meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

oil cake in Tamil

solid residue
பிண்ணாக்கு piṇṇākku, புண்ணாக்கு puṇṇākku

oil cake in Telugu

solid residue
తెలికపిండి telikapiṇḍi
cake
తెలికపిండి telikapiṇḍi

oil cake in Malayalam

solid residue
പിണ്ണാക്ക് piṇṇākkŭ

oil cake in Kannada

ಹಿಂಡಿ
More languagesFewer languages
oil cake in Gujarati
ખોળ khŏḷ
oil cake in Sanskrit
पिण्याक piṇyāka
oil cake in Arabic
كُسْبَة kusba, كُسْب kusb

Forms of oil cake

pluraloil cakes
alternative formoilcake

Questions about oil cake

What does oil cake mean?
Oil cake means the solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.
What is oil cake in Tamil?
Oil cake in Tamil is பிண்ணாக்கு (piṇṇākku), புண்ணாக்கு (puṇṇākku). See Oil cake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oil cake?
Oil cake is a noun.
What is the plural of oil cake?
The plural of oil cake is oil cakes.

Words near oil cake in the dictionary

  1. oil bugs
  2. oil burner
  3. oil burner route
  4. oil burner routes
  5. oil burners
  6. oil cake
  7. oil cakes
  8. oil can
  9. oil cans
  10. oil change
  11. oil changes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oil cake (page history and authors); oil cake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ખોળ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); पिण्याक (Sanskrit) (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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