oilseed
oilseed noun: the seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
Noun
oilseed (usually uncountable, plural oilseeds)
- The seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
- Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped and Russia’s are threatened.2022 May 19, “The coming food catastrophe”, in The Economist, →ISSN
- The plant that yields such seed.
- Synonym of milium (“keratin-filled cyst”).
- Synonyms:
- milium
oilseed meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
oilseed in Hindi
- oilseed, any crop used to make oil
- तिलहन tilhan
oilseed in Tamil
- எண்ணெய் வித்து
oilseed in Urdu
- تے کا بیج
oilseed in Malayalam
- oilseed, a seed from which oil can be extracted
- എണ്ണക്കുരു eṇṇakkuru
Synonyms of oilseed
Forms of oilseed
| plural | oilseeds |
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Origin of oilseed
From oil + seed.
Words formed from oilseed
Phrases with oilseed
Questions about oilseed
- What does oilseed mean?
- Oilseed means the seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
- What is oilseed in Hindi?
- Oilseed in Hindi is तिलहन (tilhan). See Oilseed meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is oilseed?
- Oilseed is a noun.
- What is the plural of oilseed?
- The plural of oilseed is oilseeds.
Words near oilseed in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oilseed (page history and authors); तिलहन (Hindi) (page history and authors); oilseed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oilseed (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); എണ്ണക്കുരു (Malayalam) (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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