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oilcake

oilcake is the alternative spelling of oil cake.

Meaning of oil cake

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.

Forms of oilcake

pluraloilcakes

Origin of oilcake

From oil + cake.

Questions about oilcake

What is oilcake the alternative spelling of?
Oilcake is the alternative spelling of oil cake.

Words near oilcake in the dictionary

  1. oilbirds
  2. oilbox
  3. oilboxes
  4. oilbrush
  5. oilbrushes
  6. oilcake
  7. oilcakes
  8. oilcan
  9. oilcanning
  10. oilcans
  11. oilcloth

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